Word: fervid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high, lace-hung bed, sick, old (78) Opposition Leader General Emiliano Chamorro glared as fiercely as in the fervid days when he piled up a record of 16 revolutions without a single failure. "He knows my conditions," he snapped. General Chamorro's conditions are: 1) that his Conservatives help count the ballots; 2) that his partisans-barred from preliminary registration-be allowed to vote...
Died. Josiah William Bailey, 73, Baptist-bred U.S. Senator from North Carolina (since 1931), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, fervid champion of States' Rights and one of the most caustic of the anti-New Deal Southern Democrats, onetime editor of the Baptist Biblical Recorder; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Raleigh...
...General inspires hot loyalty. No other U.S. Army in Europe has higher mo rale, higher unit pride. Third Army men do not call Patton "Old Blood & Guts" (that nickname came from such fervid advice to trainees as: "Rip their belly buttons; spill their guts around"). To his own men Patton is "The Old Man" or "The Big Guy"-and they say it respect fully...
Millions of fervid Roosevelt supporters have assumed and insisted that President Roosevelt is a genuine But the President made nis declaration of "nationalism" with hardly a flicker of a cigaret ash. Having plumped for 100% "integrity," he went on smoothly and solemnly. The nations of the world, said he, have an objective: perhaps they can reach a unanimity which would stop wars before they are started. In a sense, he added, the League of Nations had that very, very great purpose, but that got involved in American politics. That was why he and Secretary of State Hull had been working...
...soiled and wilted Panama suit, Dr. Grau stumped the countryside. The people remembered how, in his brief former Presidency during the great depression, he had tried to up wages, make more jobs. His earnest voice, his fervid sermons against corruption, his glowing talk of more schools and better roads, of Pan American solidarity and Cuba for the Cubans, sparked an emotional tinder. Peasant women knelt before him, held up their babies for his touch. Many believed the myth that "honest Grau" would end taxes, rent, electric and water bills...