Word: fervorous
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...fervor of battle first drew Elliott into politics; his unusual skills as field commander kept him there. But he also quickly developed heartfelt, hard-Right principles to go with his organizing talents. "I was a Republican who would have abandoned the Republican ship if the principles were no longer conservative enough," he says. "I proudly associated myself with the New Right... God, country, and the flag and a very limited role for government in all levels of society, a predilection for business, commerce or economic activity...
...Bishop, who had led a Marxist coup on his nearby Caribbean island in 1979, Bouterse drifted gradually leftward. Soon he was visiting Fidel Castro, singing his praises and allowing the Soviets and Cubans to open well-staffed embassies in the riverfront capital of Paramaribo. Nevertheless, Bouterse's revolutionary fervor remained relatively lackadaisical: he never bothered to nationalize private enterprises or muzzle frequent criticism from the press...
...officers were made. There had been 18 generals in his family. At 15 he joined the King's Guards Regiment. Seven years later, he resigned his commission, apparently intending to take up an equally conventional career as a model civil servant. The youth devised a program of Knowledge, Fervor and Moral Beauty. He became engaged to a pretty 18-year-old whom he congratulated on her good fortune. "Am I not noble, Wilhelmine?" he asked, with no hint of self-mockery...
Brown in 1976 and Harvard in 1977 jumped onto the contact archaeology bandwagon, and other colleges and universities did likewise. But even tax-exempt status will not sustain university "commitments" to research in the strained economy of the 1980s. Post-Bicentennial fervor fell short of expectations for long-team, substantial revenues from historical research...
...Francesca DenHartog has better states. The women are seeded fifth in the nation while the men's lacrosse is not even breaking even. Don't tell me that women's sports are "just not spectator sports" when the spectators can hardly find the publicity that instills such fan fervor! Inga L. Parsons...