Word: passionately
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...these were only minor loves; her affair with the Air Force had the quality of a grand passion, and Molly swooped down on it like an F-86 diving on a mallard. When she cried: "I never turn down an invitation!" the Air Force quickly extended her some. She was the first woman to ride in a jet; she traveled to Texas, to Hawaii, to Berlin in Air Force planes, shooting favorable publicity back to her newspapers with what was apparently a 75-mm. meringue...
...Chato kept right on expanding into all the modern variants of journalism. His ruling passion was, and is, to educate his countrymen. He transformed the Brazilian press, introducing modern makeup, circus-type headlines, bylined news stories on the U.S. model. He created his own news in campaigns for amateur flying, a lavish art museum for Sao Paulo, a hundred child centers to provide free milk and medical care for youngsters in poorer districts all over Brazil. And he showed his competitors that undreamed-of revenues could be earned by convincing Brazilian businessmen that it paid to advertise. Always, he plowed...
...Thousand Times Good-Night." In Cairo, Egypt, Aliyah Ibrahim got a divorce after telling the judge that her husband's passion for reading poetry aloud interfered with her sleep: "It is not worthwhile getting up in the middle of the night to listen to Shakespeare...
...passion for work started when he was orphaned at nine and had to make his own way through high school and college (Ohio State, Waynesburg, Rider and Rutgers), where he earned five degrees (B.S., A.B., B.C.S., M.C.S. and M.A.) and played football, basketball and baseball. This unrelenting will to work shows up in Bee's coaching. "I work my players harder [three hours a day] than any other coach in the business," Bee says pridefully. " work 'em, bawl 'em out, browbeat 'em . . . and they hate me." Though his players may not actually hate...
...strengths and weaknesses. Typically, it deals with delicate crises in the lives of ordinary folk, it rocks along with a suggestion of kindly irony, and it is written with a high polish that U.S. writers never achieve. But it also seems determinedly unambitious, self-consciously shy of mystery or passion...