Word: fervor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what next for Quebec. The crowd in Montreal was venting some of the frustration that had built up during years of wearying constitutional dispute about the status of the Gallic province of 6.5 million people in the midst of a predominantly English- speaking country of 26.5 million. The fervor of the throng was real, but when the party was over, Quebec's future course was no clearer...
...practical joke fervor, we left nothing to chance. We posted the notices in the same space as the others. We pointed the notices out with concerned faces to people we hardly knew in our dorm. We asked around if anyone knew what tungsten sulfate was (note: there is no such thing as "tungsten sulfate compounds...
...among the 15 Soviet republics, providing each of them with economic "sovereignty." In a show of goodwill, he partly eased the natural-gas embargo against breakaway Lithuania. After meeting with the leaders of all the republics for five hours last week, Gorbachev seemed to have dampened his antagonist's fervor. Said Yeltsin: "We shook hands, and we met each other halfway . . . We agreed that Russia cannot survive without the entire country and the country cannot survive without Russia...
...Saddam spent much of his youth with his maternal uncle, Khairallah Talfah, an army officer who in 1941 supported a failed attempt to topple Iraq's British-controlled monarchy. Talfah's five-year imprisonment instilled in the young Saddam a profound bitterness that would give rise to a nationalistic fervor and an acute desire to rid not only Iraq but also the entire Arab world of foreign influence...
...addition, universities do not exist to promote political agendas which, despite the fervor with which activists and idealists espouse them, are just temporary answers to long-term problems. University administrators should consider such issues, but in the context of long-term values and without political partisanship...