Word: fervid
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...tale of love at first sight with an excitement that Shakespeare himself might envy. Later he tries too many tricky variations on the familiar story line, occasionally becoming somewhat incoherent, but his feel for Spanish gypsy folkways never falters. The tragedy mounts while men, women and children dance a fervid accompaniment in which the worst of enemies seem, at long last, brothers in blood...
...reversion to earlier form came on a foreign aid vote last week. Chronic optimists might argue that the defeat of a $312 million authorization for an affiliate of the World Bank shows a fervid aversion to foreign aid rather than an addiction to capricious obstructionism...
...crisis has also brought about an indistinct but significant change in the Administration's policy toward Cuba itself, and toward Cuba in relation to the rest of Latin America. Some of the fervid Congressional cries for Castro's blood have lately become more muffled. True, there was the strange incident of the President's speech last month to the released Cuban prisoners, which through unfortunate overtones of "liberation" elicited shouts of war from the exiles. Were the overtones deliberate? Nobody knows, but it remains fairly clear Washington really has stopped depending on an invasion...
Welch declared the membership goal of the Society to be "one million fervid patriots and loyal citizens," and said that the Birchers continue to grow, despite vicious attacks...
...economic troubles mirror the nation's political plight. The federation is fast falling apart because of racial conflict between its 300,000 whites and 7,000,000 Africans. Nyasaland, under fervid African Nationalist Hastings Banda, is ready to secede from the federation, and secession ist pressure is steadily mounting in Northern Rhodesia, where the United National Independence Party of wiry, in tense Kenneth Kaunda is expected to win handsomely in next October's elections. With Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia gone, white-dominated Southern Rhodesia would be left with no hinterland in which to market its manufactured goods...