Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...army's flag has lost some of its meaning. The army, taking on respectability in spite of itself, has acquired property, a standing in the community, a connection with Community Chests, advisory committees of distinguished citizens. It has lost some of its old, hoarse, street-corner fervor...
...once an aloof personality with a tendency to talk down to his audiences, showed a new character in the Liberal-Country Party campaign. He mingled with audiences, took heckling good-naturedly, responded genially to hails of "Bob" from the crowd. He banged away at a single theme with crusading fervor: "We've come round again to a crucial decision. A vote for Labor means a vote for the ultimate bereavement of freedom." Labor retorted, "Vote for Bob and lose your job!" The Liberals countered with a crack at socialistic regimentation: "Vote for Bob and choose your...
...their ancient seat, a mansion on a lake-island in Yorkshire, and had even fought off Oliver Cromwell with swivel guns and muskets. It was no wonder, then, that when Charles, 2yth Lord of Walton, grafted a mad passion for wild life onto the old family root of religious fervor, the resulting bloom resembled a Jesuit seminary disguised as a bird sanctuary...
Munro hopes his squad will thus have plenty of reason to be up for this one, but just the same he has little reason for overconfidence. Yale's early season injuries are healing, and there's plenty of fervor in the Eli camp as the result of last week's 1 to 0 triumph over Princeton...
...little bewildered by the fervor with which the U.S. demanded that they must forthwith be one big happy family, West Europeans busied themselves with projects dedicated to unity, but the projects did not get very...