Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more protracted. After years of futile, ruinous enmity toward Israel, the Arabs conceivably might decide that their best hope for the future lies in neighborly relations between the heirs of Isaac and Ishmael. More probably, envenomed by their latest defeat, they could embark on a new orgy of irredentist fervor, thereby proving once more, as Radio Algiers put it last week, that "the only language between Israel and the Arabs is the language of iron and fire...
These stories, probably apocryphal, and the girls' fervor testify to the virulence of feelings on both sides before and during the strike. (One dean, still unidentified, is said to have called the strikers "stupid little girls" in conversation with another student.) That emotions could become so heated over an issue as trivial as apartment living makes a farce of all the mechanisms that are supposed to settle conflict at Radcliffe. Mrs. Bunting was pulled into the controversy almost immediately; her underlings, in the residence and deans' office, were unable to head off the conflict with the disgruntled girls...
...Arabs displayed wild fervor and unusual unity in facing Israel, the Israelis themselves reacted with extraordinary spirit. Lately, many Israelis had begun to fear that the dream that created and fired their state might be beginning to fade. Their country faced severe economic problems. Many who had settled it were now abandoning it. Morale among much of the populace was low. For a 19-year-old, Israel suddenly seemed listless, tired and dispirited. The crisis changed all that: suddenly the dream was very much alive again. The Jewish people once more reacted with vigor to the problem that has always...
...character is fate. In the 18th century, as Historian Ramsay Cook points out, English-speaking Canadian settlers had rejected the American Revolution, just as 13 years later, in 1789, French-speaking settlers rejected the French Revolution. As a result, Canada's 1867 charter contained little thought of revolutionary fervor or political ideology. In contrast to the American Declaration of Independence, with its ringing "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness," Canada's Constitution enjoins "Peace, Order and Good Government." For a people preoccupied from the outset with conquering a harsh land, that was mandate enough. But it nonetheless...
With evangelistic fervor, Lindsay has carried his campaign rhetoric into office, and refuses to play the game according to New York's traditional rules. He has antagonized organization Republicans by denying them patronage in return for the support he needs to put his plans for good government into effect...