Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a Coop card. As each member entered the Harvard Hall gathering-room, he was presented with a red treasurer's report, a white monograph on the Society's history, and a blue manual of by-laws, a color scheme cleverly designed to prepare the audience for the patriotic fervor to follow...
...desire to settle old scores gave a crusading fervor last week to the first Ed Wynn Show (Thurs. 9 p.m., CBS-TV). With blood in his eye, veteran Comic Wynn was out to challenge the TV popularity of brash Milton Berle. Wynn's feelings for Berle, whom he can scarcely bring himself to mention by name, range from lofty superiority ("I've yet to see something original from that man") to pitying scorn ("He'll be the D.W. Griffith of TV-nobody will give him a job in a couple of years...
Michel: Monsieur Davis, I am not one of the crowd that listens to your words with religious fervor. And I want you to know, my dear Monsieur Davis, that I am not impressed with the antics of a decadent actor. Do you follow me well...
...Sally knows that she is pregnant, her seducer has disappeared and she is already half in love with an upstanding young gas-station manager (Keefe Brasselle). From there on the plot follows all the steps of Sally's degradation and eventual rehabilitation with a kind of remorseless documentary fervor...
Last week the election returns were in. Remote-control Rabble-Rouser Bose, still in Switzerland, had won hands down-19,030 votes to 5,780 for Das. Congress leaders were plainly worried. Nehru blamed Congressmen for losing their fervor and for self-seeking-"If we cannot revitalize Congress we must dissolve it in a dignified manner rather than allow it to disintegrate by stages." A Red cloud, though not yet bigger than a man's hand, had appeared on the Congress horizon...