Word: vehemently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...British Raj sighed and announced that Dr. Satya Pal, hitherto a vehement nationalist, resigned from Saint Gandhi's Congress and volunteered to tend British wounded...
...another occasion in Times Square he inquired of an ornate damsel sitting in the back of a limousine with the top down: "Is the shimmy a moral and proper dance?" She answered in vehement affirmative. Her name turned out to be Gilda Gray...
During the years that immediately preceeded the war there was in the universities a good deal of communist feeling but it was a parlor communism; young men were at college by favor of the capitalistic system and however vehement in debate they were in their attacks on privilege few of them showed any inclination to put their theories into practice and surrender the advantages they enjoyed. When they had gotten their degrees and entered upon the serious job of earning a living the the majority changed their minds and received a reference to their old theories with some confusion...
...Asia the maritime power, Japan, chose the side of the challenger to help break the hold on the Far East of the Anglo-U. S. combination, issued its own challenge in shrill but vehement tones. But the Japanese were still far from Singapore, which is Britain's fourth great naval fortress, and from the U. S. base at Manila...