Word: fervor
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Keynote speaker Albert L. "Dapper" O'Neil, Boston city councillor-at-large, whipped on-lookers into a nationalistic fervor with his condemnation of anti-war demonstrators and his fervent pleas for support of American soldiers...
...many residents still reflect the city's patriotic fervor and traditional support for the military--which dates back as far as the Revolutionary...
...political leanings of the immigrants may not be so monolithic. Of the 185,000 Jews who left the U.S.S.R. for Israel last year, some did so out of religious fervor, some to flee from anti-Semitism, many to escape hunger and civil unrest. Nearly one-third of the estimated 3.5 million Jews remaining in the Soviet Union are expected in Israel by 1992, increasing the Israeli population 20%. For them Israel offers the only readily available alternative, now that access to the U.S. and Canada has been sharply restricted...
...armies overran Europe. "But the whole concept of the real atrocities and the things now that history so vividly records weren't driven home every single day to America," he says. "You've got to remember that in the end of the '30s there was kind of an isolationist fervor in some quarters. People saying, 'Hey, that's not any of our business.' There's a parallel there for what some feel about the Persian Gulf today: let somebody else figure this out. And it's my view that nobody can, except the United States...
...planting trees in their backyards. And after more than a decade of debate, Congress finally overhauled the Clean Air Act this fall. But these encouraging steps hardly begin to attack the most ominous threats to the environment, such as deforestation and ! global warming. For the most part, the populist fervor for preservation has not generated effective government action at a national or international level. Both the people and their leaders seem totally bewildered about how to tackle global problems. Too often they mistakenly see a conflict between a healthy environment and healthy economies. As a result, the ecology movement...