Word: vehementer
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...West Germany's rising chorus of protesting voices, none is more vehement than that of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer himself. These days, he makes no secret of his deep dissatisfaction with Western leadership. Der Alte urged the U.S., through visiting Attorney General Robert Kennedy, to limit the scope of this month's 18-nation disarmament talks in Geneva; he fears East and West will start bargaining over Germany if the discussion of disarmament bogs down. If a deal emerged, it could mean some form of East-West "disengagement," which might well permanently prevent the Germans from getting nuclear weapons...
...most vehement objections to the film are directed at a scene in which a Negro unsuccessfully attempts to rape a white woman. The shock of the attack drives the girl to suicide, and the Klan avenges her death...
...returns from 1954 through 1958, former Chicago Disk Jockey Martin F. Hogan was hauled into court and handed a bill for $105,541 plus interest and penalties. Hogan had no excuse; so he pleaded no contest and threw himself on the mercy of the court. Despite Government lawyers' vehement objections, Hogan got more mercy than he could have expected. Judge Sam Perry saw fit to fine him only $10,000, offered to reduce the bite to $1,000 if Hogan paid $20,000 of his tax bill within 30 days...
...take a ride in a Swan Boat. Crossing the road, you enter historic Boston Common, where cows once grazed and where now Irishmen, Italians, Jehovah's Witnesses, and various others debate religion. On weekends the Common resembles nothing so much as London's Hyde Park, with its vehement soapbox oratory...
Comedy, like tragedy, is based upon misery, said Eric Bentley last night in the last of his Charles Eliot Norton lectures. "Psychologists know that a patient's vehement 'no' means 'yes,'" and in the same way, carefree laughter at a comedy is a cover-up for anxiety...