Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cleveland often came by the house for jam sessions, whooping and clapping, singing and playing all through the night while Aretha watched intently from a corner. Once, at a funeral for an aunt of Aretha's, Clara Ward was singing the gospel tune Peace in the Valley; in her fervor, she tore off her hat and flung it on the ground. "That," says Aretha, "was when I wanted to become a singer." Aretha had the spirit, all right; after her first solo in church at the age of twelve, excited parishioners crowded around her father, saying, "Oh, that child...
Responding to strongly worded advice from President Robert W. Haack of the N.Y.S.E., several brokerage firms have begun taking direct action to cool the speculative fervor. E. F. Hutton & Co. announced that it will forbid its salesmen to solicit orders to buy stocks selling for less than $5 a share and will allow them no commission on such orders. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, the nation's largest securities concern, said it plans to increase restrictions on margin accounts...
...March 30, ex-President Theodore Roosevelt '80 told a CRIMSON reporter that he advocated universal military training for all American males between 19 and 21. This brought renewed fervor for the war, and on May 2 President Lowell fired off a letter to the CRIMSON urging students not of age to stay out of the armed services...
Roar of the Antique. While their risks are lower on the ground, old-car fanciers yield nothing to the airplane addicts in their fervor for the old and authentic. Proof of their enthusiasm was the 20,000 who showed up last Sunday in Brookline, Mass., to preview Parke-Bernet's old-car auction of 65 antique and classic models. For antique collectors, brass is gold, since 1915 is the year when most designers stopped using brass as trim. Thus, when a bright yellow 1913 Mercer Raceabout, model 35-J, with a "monocle" windshield, restored by retired Los Angeles Fireman...
...leader?" shouts the crowd at Resurrection City. "Ab-er-nath-y," comes the chanted rejoinder. All across the country, as he seeks to raise funds and fervor for his Poor People's Campaign in Wash ington, Ralph David Abernathy, 42, hears the same cry. Less than two months after the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the new president of the Southern. Christian Leadership Conference is doing his best to dispel doubts about S.C.L.C.'s ability to carry on. "You can kill the dreamer," he repeatedly tells audiences, "but you can't kill the dream...