Word: fervor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Laborites were chagrined and showed it. Eden's sudden fervor for a meeting of chiefs of government after months of discouraging Sir Winston Churchill from trying, grumbled Clem Attlee, was naught but "a deathbed repentance." "I do not believe the government have seized all the opportunities they might," said cockney Herbert Morrison, Labor's last Foreign Secretary, speaking at Eastleigh in Hampshire. "The Labor government would be more energetic. I mean, compare the mentality of the Tories and the Socialists. We're the lively lot, they're the slothful...
...quarter, French colonials and a few Americans sipped apéritifs on balconies and watched the distant show-most Frenchmen rooting for the terrorists and most Americans for Ngo Dinh Diem. Soon the news looked bad for the French: the young Nationalists, it seemed, were fighting with efficiency and fervor. During the night the Nationalists attacked and knocked out half a dozen Binh Xuyen strongpoints, one after the other. Paratroopers stormed the big Binh Xuyen garrison at Petrusky High School in a wild, shouting charge. Among the prisoners taken in one Binh Xuyen bunker: a couple of French noncoms...
Offseason Diversion. For all its violence, lacrosse has had a persistent appeal. Maryland tourists brought it home to Baltimore in the 1880s, and with evangelical fervor made their city the lacrosse capital of the nation. For years, the rosters of All-America teams have read like pages from the Baltimore phone book...
...Ballerina Kaye created the part in 1942, and nobody else has ever danced it. Pillar of Fire (set to Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht) established her as a unique dancing actress who brought new depth to ballet. Last week Ballerina Kaye danced the part with the same old tragic fervor. ¶ Pillar's British Choreographer Antony Tudor, 46, who was originally "curator" of the company's Modern English wing, was on hand last week to dance the part of Hagar's beloved. ¶ Lucia Chase, late-fortyish, Ballet Theater's longtime wealthy angel and firm guiding...
Governor William Stoughton was a jolly man. Presiding over the witch trials in Salem, he had only nineteen hanged, although another was pressed to death for refusing to testify. If Judge Stoughton was, perhaps, overzealous in his religion, at least his fervor overflowed into education, for he endowed Harvard with several scholarships, a pasture, and Stoughton Hall. In 1700, during Increase Mather's presidency, Stoughton "College" was built at right angles to the cast end of Harvard Hall. The second brick building in the Yard, it had three stories and an attic lighted by dormer windows...