Word: vehementer
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Burst of Denunciation. While the D.A.s were speaking their minds in Phoenix, New York State put on the books two new anticrime statutes. But when Governor Nelson Rockefeller signed the measures into law, he provoked a vehement burst of criticism...
...pattern varies widely. Miami is plagued with two-car students, while Purdue forbids freshmen and sophomores even to drive in the county around the campus. At well-heeled Northwestern, coeds tool to class in Cadillacs ("We've always had a high caliber of automobile here"). At Harvard, vehement Vespas grind like drunken dentists. At M.I.T., some students park in a remote lot, heft bicycles off the roofs of their cars, pedal the remaining two miles to class...
Although many girls pleaded for calm, thoughtful discussion, and that "politics be kept out of it," the bill's supporters were often vehement in attacking their opponents. One Barnard girl damned "last ditch conservatives" in Briggs for using "diabolically clever tactics" against the bill...
...When Elizabeth reigned. He sought concrete words standing for "material things which may be seen, touched, tasted, smelled or heard." No Lambuth student could write that a man indulged in an act of generosity; he wrote that a man gave a dollar to a tramp. Abstract: He gave vehement and conclusive expression to his anger. Concrete: His fist landed squarely on the man's chin and put him down...
Despite his vehement speech, the young Muslim leader grinned frequently and said several times that he did not hate whites. But he added, "All white people basically think the same. In the South they always show wolf's teeth. In the North they are more foxy but they have the same teeth. Finding a white who sincerely wants integration is like looking for a needle in a haystack. I once found an honest white man and I was willing to go around the block with him--but no farther...