Word: vehemently
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...with all the flailing this required, the hatchets were bound to mangle something they should not have. They did. They chopped fall reading period into a miserable relic, all of eight days long. Last year's ten day reading period was inadequate enough, and the University spared itself vehement complaints only by asserting that its brevity was due to an unfortunate juncture of the calendar and Corporation by-laws which would never happen again. Not only is this year's shorter, however, but apparently it is permanent as well...
Boston Pops conductor Arthur Fiedler (left) told listeners that it is the responsibility of the conductor to keep up with the times and give new compositions a hearing. Fiedler was vehement in his dislike of criticism of new pieces which are written after only one hearing...
...drivers in the Square claim they can always spot Radcliffe girls "by the odd way the dress." Although the taxi drivers were vehement in their protests of Annex bicycle riding and tipping habits, discussions of 'Cliffedwellers' clothing styles brought forth the most moans...
...views until his mother had introduced him to the ideas of the Oxford Group, after which "I tried to place all my thoughts and acts in God's service." At 16 he went to Dartmouth, where he gained some campus notoriety as a radical, largely because of his vehement defense of the underdog. He sometimes sardonically told his classmates that he was "a bolshevik because I want to blow you up." Actually, he was only dreaming of a better society...
Harvard's religious policies came in for vehement criticism by the Rev. Dr. John S. Bonnell in his sermon Sunday at New York's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. Dr. Bonnell specifically lashed out at the General Education Report of 1945 which he claimed started a "secularist trend" in American colleges because of its refusal to propose religious instruction in the curriculum...