Word: ferver
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...French writer named Denis de Rougemont attended a Nazi rally in Nuremburg and recorded a stunning experience. The long-awaited arrival of Adolf Hitler threw the crowd into a frenzy. Screams of delight mounted to a ferver pitch as the man drew nearer, until the surging mass of the people gave way to utter hysteria. Rougemont felt something uncontrollable stir within him--the thrill of mass hysteria--and so powerful was the feeling that he almost succumbed. But something withing him rebelled. Ionesco relates Rougemont's story with curiosity in his notes from November 1960; "just then...
...course there was the infamous painting of the Widener columns by a Yale Thursday morning, which Harvard students already know about, but some of the other festivities, and the ferver with which the Yale students are approaching The Game would be incomprehensible to a Harvard student...
...same time, Dirksen announced that Dr. Daniel A. Poling, 81-year-old clergyman-author from New York, will direct the new campaign, and Poling hinted strongly that the charismatic Dr. Billy Graham intends to throw his influence and evangelical ferver into the struggle...
...author, while emphasizing the accomplishments under President Cardenas, admits that the agrarian reform has still a long path to go. In the meantime, we are assured, the former peons "now labor with new ferver and a boundless faith to wrost from the unhewn rocks of the past the Mexico of the future...
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