Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...emphasized that the idealistic revolutionary fervor characteristic of the Soviet Union in its early years has given way to an apathetic conforming to official indoctrination...
...Such impromptu declarations are not unusual at Wheaton, a little (1,500 students), nondenominational college which still bears the stamp of its strict fundamentalist heritage: no movies, smoking, card-playing, dancing or drinking, a 10 p.m. weekday curfew. But as the first students finished speaking, a surge of confessional fervor swept through the auditorium...
Last week, his blue eyes twinkling with enthusiasm and excitement, Pablo Casals was practicing with a new will and fervor. To honor the great Bach himself on the sooth anniversary of the composer's death, he had agreed to play in public just once more. Said he last week: "I am not coming out of retirement. I decided to play here this once, in spite of my retirement...
...make sure that his 1,400 production employees share the fervor, President Beveridge has a profit-sharing plan, maintains an elective employees' council to keep working conditions up to snuff. So well does the system work that the 800-man Easthampton plant now has 5,000 job applications in its files and a labor turnover of only 2%. Everyone at Stanley belongs to what they call the B.C.H. Club. Full name: Bright, Cheerful & Happy...
Vanity Fair. Businessmen saw the signs and began to act accordingly. They hit the door-to-door trail of salesmanship with some of their oldtime evangelical fervor. Cried the Southern Wholesale Confectioners Association: "Early to bed, early to rise, work like heck and advertise." Businessmen did indeed advertise-the more than $400 million spent in newspapers in 1949 was the greatest ever. They also cut prices, squared off against their competitors, and ran their own private giveaway programs. Many appliance sellers threw in $40 worth of frozen meat with every freezer; in Milwaukee, a furniture store offered a free airplane...