Word: vehemently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this latter stand which had met with most vehement opposition in the pages of the Yale Alumni Magazine. Outspokesman for the opposition was Jack B. Schmetterer '52, who charged that sons of alumni were admitted without competing and were often unable to maintain their positions...
Henry Morton Robinson's article has stirred up vehement protest among non-Ivy League college students, some of whom are expected to appear at the forum to challenge his opinions. Holiday's advertisements called the article "the most infuriating magazine feature...
...cents, the best play in London is not English at all. The Count of Clerembard, a French satire by Marcel Ayme, is a thorough delight and will soon be brought to America. Clive Brook, as the Count, is a bestial huntsman converted by a miracle to equally vehement Christianity. He decides that his son must marry that humblest of all creatures, the town prostitute (played by Mai Zetterling). Without sacrificing any humor, the play deepens from farce to genuine reverence. Its unresolved conclusion, called by one London critic "seatty and sacreligious," is just the opposite, if there is an antonym...
...midnight in the bitter year 1932, two journalists-one white, one Negro-walked south along Philadelphia's Broad Street in a sleety drizzle. They were talking of the Negro problem, the white man with a vehement impatience for justice, his companion more calmly and out of a deeper feeling for the scope and depth of the subject. Before parting, they stood a while under the marquee of the old Broad Street Station. Across the square under the arcade of city hall, dozens of men, wrapped in newspapers, slept. Panhandlers and a few night-shift apple-sellers stood on corners...
Opposition to the University's proposed housing project at Shady Hill remained vehement and virtually unanimous last night among those living immediately around the tentative site...