Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With fervor, Eden cried: "We shall be creating a new pattern of friendship throughout these Middle-Eastern regions . . . It is the only way we can hope to work with those countries. We cannot hope to work with them by putting 20,000, 30,000, 80,000 men there and telling them what to do. They simply will not do what they are told, and that leads to endless trouble...
Last week Congress ignored President Eisenhower's search for a way to cure crop surpluses. Instead, without a record vote, House members whooped through a bill permitting sale abroad of $1 billion in farm surpluses, plus famine relief gifts of $300 million more. So hot was the fervor to unload that Congressmen struck from the bill a provision for "reasonable precautions" against any smashing of normal trade patterns by U.S. dumping abroad...
...This is the original.") The revival got under way. Striding excitedly around his congregation, and sweating with fervor, Evangelist Poole shouted and whispered into his microphone. "I used to be a drunkard," he would yell. "I used to curse and tell lies and all those things. But I've been saved! ... If you come, you can find God around this old bush arbor ... If you go home lost tonight, it's not my fault." His flock would begin to groan and shout, to shake and roll in the sawdust. Then a string quartet would take over...
President Pusey's first Baccalaureate Address at Harvard rang with the note of religions fervor yesterday afternoon as he spoke to a capacity audience gathered in Memorial Church...
...Bachman was the last, and least distinguished of the principals. Wooden and without fervor, she helped dispense some necessary exposition...