Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those who survived the trip to Palestine-and thousands died on the way-religious fervor soon had to compromise with political realities. The headlong charge of the First Crusade (described in Vol. I of the History) had established a weak chain of Crusader states in Syria and Palestine-the strongest, the Kingdom of Jerusalem, in the south. They were all military states, constantly at war. But they were thinly garrisoned. The average Crusader was essentially a military tourist, and no more than 2,000 armed knights, most of them French, were ever permanently stationed in the Holy Land...
...Devil Rides Outside, by John H. Griffin. The turmoil of a young American torn between world and monastery; a first novel marked by crude energy and unashamed religious fervor (TIME...
...Devil Rides Outside, by John H. Griffin. The turmoil of a young American torn between world and monastery; a first novel marked by crude energy and unashamed religious fervor (TIME...
Down here in New York the football fervor is reaching its customary stage of mild mania and this year they are tormenting us with a new charge, emanating primarily from Princeton. Our schedule, they claim, lacks virility. We must go on the offensive and you may be interested in a recent exchange of sentiments I had with a Princetonian. I think you will agree that their 24-game winning streak was a bit of a sham...
...publishers (a Fort Worth firm whose first book this is) cut out 250 pages and could profitably have lopped off 200 more. But though Devil is crudely written as well as overwritten, it has some things relatively rare in U.S. letters: energy, earnestness and unashamed religious fervor...