Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poor showing seemed to portend a lack of fervor toward the states' rights cause. "We must not," Byrd warned, "be lulled into a sense of false security if there is some delay in taking up these [civil rights] bills," which he called a "devil's brew." As his tie, ablaze with a Stars & Bars design, fluttered in the wet breeze, Byrd charged Truman with trying to "usurp state police power" by setting up a special FBI for the South, and with following "the primrose path to socialism...
Verdi: La Traviata (Licia Albanese, soprano; Jan Peerce, tenor; Robert Merrill, baritone); the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 4 sides LP). The recording loses a little of the fervor of the splendid 1946 broadcast...
...beauty of the collection, says Karolik, is that "it expresses its own idiom, which is definitely American." The two pictures on the opposite page are clearly in that idiom. William Sharp's Railroad Jubilee on Boston Common, painted an even century ago, celebrates with Fourth of July fervor the westward march of the railroad empire builders. James Goodwyn Clonney's wooden Sleigh Ride has New England winter clarity and fireside warmth...
...accused would be allowed to resign rather than be dismissed. The President announced an inquiry into sports at service schools, but spoke in tones which suggested that few applecarts would be overturned. The most investigation-minded Congress in many a decade, for once, could generate no fervor for investigation...
Although philistines may claim that the only reason some Harvard men develop a fervor for old cars is that they can't afford a new one, devotee owners stoutly maintain that the time-mellowed heaps which rest in sagging splendor on the side streets from the Yard to the river are symbols of an all but vanished era of gracious living...