Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prankish warriors, massacring Saracens on the walls of Jerusalem and Tyre, won dazzling triumphs and founded a kingdom in the Holy Land. The concluding volume relates the somber story of how the warrior pilgrims, having lost the Holy City while squabbling over lands and trade, also lost their crusading fervor...
Triestini had long been pictured as fearful of the economic losses that would follow the withdrawal of U.S. and British forces. But the worry was not in evidence in the Piazza dell' Unita. The crowd irrupted in a fervor of patriotism. Some oldsters broke down in tears. Youths began chanting, "Italia! Italia!" and voices were raised in the refrain of Brothers of Italy and Hymn of the Piave...
Arnold Toynbee calls himself a Christian. His works are drenched with Christian symbolism, terminology and theology. He often seems to speak with deep Christian fervor. Yet his beliefs fit into no Christian orthodoxy. He is not a Christian in any strict sense of the word...
...later, the embattled Catholics of the Tonkin area gave a better account of themselves, fighting with the kind of religious fervor so often theoretically invoked in the West as the answer to the fanatic fervor of the Communists...
...pocket they found another sheaf of papers-an extraordinary farewell letter. It proved to be a calculated and deadly thrust against his foes. "Once more," it began, "the forces and interests against the people are newly coordinated and raised against me." He blasted with equal fervor his political opponents and foreign enterprises in Brazil. Only at the end did Vargas speak of death, but then his words were the sort to move men: "I offer my life in the holocaust. I choose this means to be with you always. When they humiliate you, you will feel my soul suffering...