Word: fervorous
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...tower was redesigned to hold the bells, and President Lowell hired a Russian, Sergiev, to care for them. Sergiev's duties includes tuning and playing the bells, and he took to the task with fervor. While Turk claims that the bells "could not be tuned," they in fact could, and this is why Sergiev field notches into the bells: this is the only method of tuning bronze bells...
...First Fervor turned into a campaign against the power of Satan...
...paper El Nacional found that most citizens rejected the idea of a dictatorship -- but thought the country's democratic system has lost some of its fundamental values. "What worries me most," says former President Rafael Caldera, who is now a Senator, "is that I don't find the same fervor for the defense of democratic institutions among the people...
...encyclopedic part of the book highlights the urgency to save the earth. Extremely readable, frequently eye-opening and each sentence worded with the fervor of a politician, this part has enough authority to be on a class reading list. Few sources on the environment convey the need for ordinary citizens to reverse the startling statistics about global atrophy...
...even planned to be a missionary. But the loss of his sister killed his faith in God. While Turner never recovered that faith, he has found a way to recover his proselytizing impulses as an apostle of peace and preservation. "It's almost like a religious fervor," he says...