Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That is the fervent chorus of A Message to Khomeini, an instant hit on WDLW, a Boston-area radio station. The song is part of the slick and quick hustle by schlock dealers nationwide to make a buck out of the crisis in Iran...
Mohammed Javad Bahonar, 46, an Islamic scholar who has been a leading figure on Iran's 15-man Revolutionary Council for the past year, sat with his legs crossed on the floor of his small apartment in Tehran and offered a partisan assessment of the current crisis: His fervent arguments illustrate the gulf between the Iranian version of the conflict and the view of it held by the outside world. As he talked with TIME's Bruce van Voorst, Bahonar fingered his horn-rimmed glasses like modern worry beads...
...months he had waited patiently in the wings, as nine other Republicans entered the race without dislodging him from his position at the head of the pack. Last week Ronald Reagan, the once fervent evangelist of the political right, finally made his move. He did so in one of the nation's few citadels of G.O.P. moderation: New York City. As a spotlight redolent of Hollywood memories illuminated his pinkish cheeks and slightly graying temples, the still handsome candidate declared, "I am here tonight to announce my intention to seek the Republican nomination for President of the United States...
...tardy. Even people who really admire and sustain Carter believe he is hanging by a slender political thread. With a provident combination of luck, hard work and fervent prayer, the President may, in the words of a friend, "just make it" back into office...
Unwisely, Kennedy's fervent backers started out by making farfetched predictions of outright victory. But they steadily deflated those claims until, by last week, the chastened draft organizer, Sergio Bendixen, ventured: "We're hanging in there...