Word: fervor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Martin in 1925 to be Donald Douglas' chief engineer in Santa Monica. In 1934 General Motors picked Dutch to manage and expand its North American Aviation. But while Donald Douglas held back against the inevitable expansion of U.S. aircraft production (TIME, Nov. 22), Dutch pushed it with characteristic fervor (he had taken a 1938 European trip and had seen the Nazis...
...week: "I taught him how to groove, how to make it sweet-the strong bass he had dates from that time. He stuck pretty well to my pattern-developed a lovely singing tone, a lyric, melodic expression, and then too, him being the son of a preacher, he had fervor...
...With a fervor unmatched since the days of the Old Testament prophets, he went further and insisted that if his vision were followed it would bring victory, and with victory an end of human unhappiness when "all these hearts as of fretted chil dren shall be sooth'd."; The vision began to take form at the meeting point of life & death. The hospitals were halls of agony. Walking through them, visitors fainted. The men who had beaten back Pickett at Gettysburg and been burned when the caissons exploded at Chancellorsville here faced a more deadly menace than rebel marksmen...
...burning fervor is all it takes to make a feared and respected slinger of the pen; the Friendly Editors will supply in concentrated lessons what you lack in experience. In Harvard's only course in journalistic style, all comers will learn how to be gentle, how to be sentimental, how to boost subtly a pet idea, and, last but not least, how to don the silver armor (which hangs freshly polished, semperparatus, behind the Managing Editor's desk) and ride roughshod over the tyrants of University Hall and drive the money changers from Lehman. They will be received...
...York, a committee of oldtime Republicans began plugging both General Douglas MacArthur ("Soldier") and Ohio's Governor John Bricker ("Statesman") for the Presidency with equal fervor, waited to see which, if either, would catch fire...