Word: fervor
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...chair percussionist," Bellson kidded. The blend of the traditional jazz standard and one of Ellington's most famous melodies held many treasures in store. The quintet began with "Cherokee" and then broke into choruses of "Cottontail." Throughout the second section, Swartz strummed along powerfully with something akin to religious fervor...
...followers the instrument by which the rubble could be bounced into a new political arrangement, one that Republicans could dominate for years to come. It was that prospect, the blood-tingling thought that they might be witnessing the start of a G.O.P. millennium, that brought a real fervor to the Republican side of the House on their marathon opening day. "Newt, Newt, Newt!" they chanted. "It's a whole Newt world...
House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt today tried to end-run the GOP tax-cut fervor by proposing that four-fifths of Americans in lower income groups pay a flat tax of between 10 and 11 percent. The wealthiest Americans under the Gephardt proposal would pay a higher rate, not yet specified. Gephardt floated the plan in testimony before the House and Ways Mean Committee. He also attacked the alternative GOP flat-tax plan, pushed by House Majority Leader Richard Armey (R-Texas), as "a massive redistribution of wealth from the middle class to the wealthiest Americans" because it exempts income...
...time-traveled back to the Great Depression and fell in love with Joan Collins. They know the scientific properties of dilithium crystals, they have memorized the floor plan of the Starship Enterprise, and they can say, "Surrender or die!" in the Klingon language. They have immersed themselves, with a fervor matched by few devotees of any religious sect, in a fully imagined future world, where harmony and humanism have triumphed and the shackles of time and space can be cast aside almost at will. Trekkies are true-believing optimists, and a few of them may be nuts...
...This is a sign of a lack of support for Clinton. It is clear that he does not have a mandate," Muino said. "Hopefully, this is an anti-incumbent fervor that will last through '96 and see his demise...