Word: vehementer
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Citation: "Imaginative, resourceful, vehement, volcanic. A doctor to the drama, he cuts out whole scenes, resets parts, injects vitality, and makes things move. He pushed Pinza about, put Mary Martin in a shower, kept Ethel Merman tough, and who but Logan could bring it about that 'Bloody Mary Is the Girl I Love'? A disciple of the classic dramatists, he makes his audience see and feel what human nature...
Quoting Anatole France, Lord Acton, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Dever's speech was a vehement defense of the Democratic record and a denunciation of the "first hundred days" of the Eisenhower administration. "But," Dever said, "liberalism, like General MacArthur, will return...
...majority of Western Germans. Stirred by Russia's tightening control in East Germany, the Western Germans day by day become less reluctant to rearm. In the Bundestag, Socialist Leader Erich Ollenhauer, no firebrand as Kurt Schumacher had been before him, was determined in his opposition, but not vehement...
Shortly after 1 a.m., in the rear of the presidential box at the McDonough gym inaugural hall, Dwight Eisenhower and Charles Erwin Wilson* talked about the Wilson crisis. Ike seemed vehement, once made a table-pounding motion with his doubled fist. Wilson was having his say too. Later, Eisenhower's aides said the President told Wilson that he wanted him to do whatever was necessary to qualify as Defense Secretary. A few hours later, Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey heard from friends on Capitol Hill exactly what Wilson would have to do: sell his General Motors stock...
...been constant in all codes of discipline: the attempt of the undergraduate to evade or eliminate the rules that bind him, plus the desire to rebel when the rules bind him too closely. William R. Thayer, in his "History of Harvard University," notes that "discontent and rebellion were vehement just in proportion to the burden of repression...