Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SOME of their critics have consigned them, in holy outrage, to the lower regions of hell. Some of their defenders, with equally fervent conviction, see them as saints destined for the higher reaches of heaven. Whatever their presumed destination, they are arguably the most remarkable company of men to embark on a spiritual journey since Jesus chose the Twelve Apostles. With a certain pride, they have adopted the name their enemies once used against them in derision. They are the Jesuits...
When first elected in 1965, he seemed to be the answer to the city's fervent prayers. He was young, dashing, committed, uncorrupted-in the Kennedy mold. He showed a flair for the dramatic gesture. During the ghetto riots of the late 1960s, he walked with head held high through the streets of Harlem, and behind the scenes negotiated adroitly with potential ghetto troublemakers. New York avoided the explosions that hit many other of the nation's big cities...
...voters to polling places in a shuttle of buses. In the Rialto district, they assembled strange processions of the elderly and infirm who looked as if they could scarcely make it to the nearest park bench, much less to the ballot box. There was even a Spanish nun, a fervent supporter of Prime Minister Jack Lynch, who appeared at one Dublin polling place to vote for the local Fianna Fáil candidate. But she was challenged and told she could not vote. "All right," she declared. "If I can't vote for him, I'll pray...
Some accounts credit St. Thomas with converting Maloula to Christianity. Others ascribe the conversion to a passing hermit, a fervent Christian who was horrified to discover lascivious goings-on at a Roman bath in the village and cursed the place, thereby causing the bath to collapse over the heads of the libidinous bathers. A church now stands on the site of the baths...
...wounded American soldiers. He had never thought about the people dying over there; he was genuinely moved. This human reaction aid not cause a reassessment of policy, however. On the contrary. Bundy's emotion was channeled into hatred of the enemy." It made him a more fervent supporter of the existing unemotional policies...