Word: fervorous
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...Feelings. Ford obviously did not mean what he said. But his remark wounded the feelings of many Polish Americans and others of Eastern European extraction. The postwar immigrants in particular are bitter about the oppression of Communism, and they are inclined to regard their homelands with much the same fervor that American Jews feel for Israel. While people now living in Eastern Europe have generally made their accommodation with the regimes, the immigrants-and many first-and second-generation Americans - remain unalterably opposed to Communism and await, however forlornly, its overthrow...
...panelists-like many American voters-felt the campaign lacked excitement and inspiration. At best they were watching it with the cool appraisal of a professional handicapper sizing up a match race. Almost 9 out of 10 were following the campaign closely but without any feelings of fervor or commitment. Many grumbled about the lack of real differences between the two combatants. Said Salesman Randy Lipton, a Ford man from Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.: "Carter is saying nothing, and Ford is doing nothing...
...coup. Teng would probably have to go through new rituals of selfcriticism, but if he is in fact rehabilitated, it would be a sure sign that the post-Mao leadership now in place intends to move steadily in the direction of pragmatism and an easing of Mao-style revolutionary fervor...
...other had looked through instead of at him. Someone else describes a dinner party where she wanted to "scratch out the women's eyes" and "grab the men's balls"--a lame evocation of hostility made even more hokey by the gratuitous vulgarity. While couples copulate with increasing fervor and come, for what can only be a choreographic reason, together, a choral voice-over ludicrously intones the entire series of Old Testament begattings...
...former president of the All-India Rail-waymen's Federation, and he was now facing India's first prosecution for conspiracy against the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Behind Fernandes came 21 co-defendants-industrialists, journalists, politicians and others-also handcuffed and chained. With characteristic fervor, Fernandes rattled his shackles and declared that he was guilty of no crime. "We and the chains we bear before you today," he told Magistrate Mohammed Shamim, "are symbolic of the entire nation...