Word: vehemently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly after 1 a.m., in the rear of the presidential box at the McDonough gym inaugural hall, Dwight Eisenhower and Charles Erwin Wilson* talked about the Wilson crisis. Ike seemed vehement, once made a table-pounding motion with his doubled fist. Wilson was having his say too. Later, Eisenhower's aides said the President told Wilson that he wanted him to do whatever was necessary to qualify as Defense Secretary. A few hours later, Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey heard from friends on Capitol Hill exactly what Wilson would have to do: sell his General Motors stock...
...been constant in all codes of discipline: the attempt of the undergraduate to evade or eliminate the rules that bind him, plus the desire to rebel when the rules bind him too closely. William R. Thayer, in his "History of Harvard University," notes that "discontent and rebellion were vehement just in proportion to the burden of repression...
...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...