Word: fervorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon as it gets across to the public to cease clearing out the dog pounds in patriotic fervor and to donate some real honest-to-goodness dog flesh, the faster we will be able to come, close to matching the Axis' fifty-odd thousand trained dogs...
Christmas, 1942, was the time when trains were jammed and trees were scarce, when turkey was high and the eggnog bowl low. It was a time when, despite the opulence of gifts in many homes, the people sang with fervor, in a peculiar popular ditty, that they just wanted to keep what they had. It was a time when a young Navy wife in Seattle said: "Last Christmas I worried if my husband would come home from the office sober enough to trim the tree. This year I wonder if he'll come home from the Solomons-anytime...
Canny, angry Bill Douglas proved his executive ability and his crusading fervor as head of the Securities & Exchange Commission. Even from the austerity of the Supreme Court he casts such a personal spell that politicians of both parties struggle to be seen with him when he goes back to the West Coast for vacations. Of all New Dealers, Justice Douglas looks to many of his colleagues like the white hope for political savvy and good, sound, vote-winning sense. If Jimmy Byrnes can patch up the New Deal, Bill Douglas may be the man to bring off the final cure...
...assembled a civilian suit from gift boxes, had let himself down some 60 ft. of Giraud-made rope. Posing as a Swiss traveling salesman, he had serpentined through Germany for eleven days, finally crossed into Switzerland. Unpublished reports at the time said that his escape and his anti-Nazi fervor were known to the British, who sent a plane to Switzerland for him, but that before it arrived he fled Switzerland for Vichy to escape Nazi pursuers. Vichy was afraid to turn him over to Germany because of his popularity among the French people. General Giraud was later said...
Herbert Agar is not afraid to deliver a sermon. A Time for Greatness is a 300-page editorial on democracy that has the fervor and some of the moral reach of the Old Testament prophets. Two quotations set the framework of Agar's thinking...