Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five years on a Birmingham newspaper left Garth with a weird jumble of contemporary catchwords. For a while he was a New Dealer himself. He dallied with the Birmingham Reds (especially with Millionaire Comrade Adeline Reed, who had revolutionary and biological fervor. He turned against them after watching their tactics in a steel strike...
...Lutheran pastor, in sober black clerical gown, stood up in his pulpit at Woodstock, Va. and preached with godly fervor and patriotic warmth. "There is a time for all things," he ended, "a time to preach and a time to pray. But there is also a time to fight, and that time has now come...
...more than mere fervor to dedicate to the job ahead. At 66, Erich Raeder can tell himself that he did not get to his present place from having been, like Himmler or Ribbentrop, a product of Nazi politics, thrown suddenly into jobs where all the emphasis was on ruthlessness or adroitness rather than craftsmanship. British and U.S. Navymen consider him an able officer, profound rather than brilliant, a deep-water seaman and organizer rather than a technical expert. He is the German nation's living link with the proud traditions of bearded old Alfred von Tirpitz, father...
Hitler snuggled as snugly as he could into his cloak of proletarian fervor. He contrasted himself again & again, the protector of the poor, with plutocratic foes. Lest Germans be disturbed, however, by thoughts that the Russians are also convinced proletarians of long standing, the country was plastered with posters showing German soldiers suffering from "Communistic dirt, filth, lice, disorganization, lack of most essential commodities...
...tragedy of Erna Schmidt is the tragedy of all decent men and women, "the little people," who are blamed for the maniacal deeds of their rulers. The girls, in their patriotic fervor, try to focus all their unresolved thinking, all their unresolved thinking, all their hatred of Germany, upon her, trying to create of her an image of the Nazi regime...