Word: vehementer
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...Labor Party leader, the Home Secretary could not fail to note other phenomena. The Communist Party's paying membership jumped from 20,000 in January to 53,000 in June. Londoners, with vehement regularity, jammed Trafalgar Square, 30,000 strong, to approve demands for a second front and revival of the Worker. The Labor Party voted a resolution against the ban. One after another, unions of miners, railwaymen, textile workers, locomotive drivers and journalists cried for the Worker...
...only will his teaching entail an easing of his retirement but will necessitate his breaking a long-standing personal tradition by addressing an audience of women for the first time. He has not promised to curb his vehement chastising of hat-wearing or newspaper-reading during his lectures, and it is presumed that his classes will be as colorful as they are traditionally painted...
Second Front. "Imagine what would have happened had we yielded to this vehement temptation [to open a second front]! Every ton of our shipping, every flotilla, every airplane, the whole strength of our Army would have been committed and fighting for life, and these troubles of the Far East and of the Middle East might have sunk into insignificance compared with the question of another and far worse Dunkirk...
...first their ruling said that any Dining Hall worker, whether union or "scab," who gave up his position should be replaced by an A. F. of L. member. Although this move would have eventually led to a closed shop, it was decided that it was not vehement enough, and therefore the union asked for an immediate change to a closed shop...
America First was not in a happy spot. In the unhappiest spot of all was elderly, vehement Robert Elkington Wood, Brigadier General of the U.S. Army (retired), holder of the Distinguished Service Medal, Companion of the British Order of St. Michael and St. George, Knight of the French Legion of Honor, Chairman of the Board of Sears, Roebuck & Co., boss of America First...