Word: fervor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...saint's. Not since the late Harry Langdon of the silent days has the screen shown a comedian who, caught tiptoeing past the Big Top in broad daylight with a stolen elephant in tow, could throw up his hands and say with almost mystical fervor: "What elephant...
...wife Lenore hurried over to the polling place-to vote for George Wilcken Romney, 55, Republican candidate for Governor of Michigan. Many a politician might then have rewarded himself with a well-deserved rest on the day of days. But not Romney, a man of depthless energy and evangelical fervor about everything that engages his interest. On Election Day 1962, Romney went out campaigning...
Although most persons in the stands were primarily concerned with the battle being fought on the field, talk of Cuba and the international crisis was heard everywhere. There was a special fervor in the crowd when the "Star Spangled Banner" was sung...
...hands; of a heart attack; in Konnersreuth, Germany. Therese permitted herself to be viewed on Good Fridays by Roman Catholics, many of whom considered her to be a living saint; the Vatican remained neutral and doctors considered her affliction a nervous disorder conditioned by her religious fervor...
...probe the origins of the concept among the primitive men of 30,000 years ago, who provided their corpses with weapons to see them through death's terrors. Obviously the idea of heaven had a rise in evolution's slow periods-and, battered by the investigative fervor of science, has it not had a fall too? In a new book that attempts to survey the history of man's conception of destiny, a British cleric and scholar raises this question, and ends with an answer trembling on his tongue. The answer seems...