Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aside from these demonstrations of fervor, the Summerfield-Cleary neutrality plan worked. Fourteen districts gave no hint of their preference. After a compromise slate of ten delegates at large was presented to the convention, the chairman of the "Michigan for Eisenhower" committee moved for its election, the chairman of the "Bob Taft Committee of Michigan" seconded the motion, and the head of the "MacArthur for President Committee" moved that nominations be closed. The delegation as a whole was indeed uninstructed...
General Education is still at a tender age, and its chances of fulfilling all the hopes invested in it are hardly measurable just now. Nonetheless, everyone seems to have great faith in the program--its very name evokes religious fervor--and the authors of the Council G.E. Report are no exceptions. Although they have not tried to judge General Education except by its own standards, they imply that the faults plaguing it are ones of administration and teaching, and that eliminating these is all one must do to make the program a success...
...rebel who speaks with the roaring fervor of a Biblical prophet, Griffiths nevertheless is a master compromiser. When persuasion will not work, his sense of humor often does the trick. Once, while touring the U.S., he was told by an American: "Frankly, I don't like the English." Replied Jim: "That's all right. I have a lot of trouble with them myself." In Labor's reign, he handled the tough Ministry of National Insurance, later was Secretary of State for the Colonies. Respected by both Attlee and Bevan, Griffiths last week was giving no indication that...
...period after the war when U.S. scientists were almost boycotting AEC laboratories. Part of their hostility was due to the very real hardships of wartime life at Los Alamos and Oak Ridge. Probably more important was a widespread feeling of revulsion. The scientists had worked with fanatical fervor to build an atom bomb for use against the Axis powers. They succeeded beyond their expectations, and many of them were haunted for years by the horror of their success. In the words of their leader, Robert Oppenheimer, wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, "they had known sin." At any rate...
With all the fervor of an oldtime revival meeting, 2,854 delegates to the 23rd annual convention of the Consumers Cooperative Association last week roared out the chorus of their Battle Hymn of Cooperation. The windburned farmers who lounged in red plush chairs in Kansas City's Municipal Auditorium, munching apples, had plenty to sing about. In 23 years, C.C.A. has become the largest co-op of its kind in the U.S. It has assets of $52.2 million, 449,000 member families, and last year sold $74 million worth of merchandise-everything from tractors to toilet soap...