Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hysterical atmosphere where rationality is lost to powerful feelings of patriotism and goodness in the catchy rock beat of the songs. But you get the message, All about motherhood and chauvinism and the evils of the sex and drink. You get the message. And wealthy businessmen in the fervor of it all dash off $500 checks, and high school and college kids run over to sign up, to be Sign-Out people themselves and solve the problems of the world by spreading the Word...
...second only to the 16.41 million shares traded on Oct. 29, 1929. The Big Board's two-year-old high-speed ticker, which flashes stock transactions as fast as the human eye can read, fell behind by a record 27 minutes. In the first hour's speculative fervor, the bellwether Dow-Jones industrial average jumped 13.70 points as buyers bid up the price of airlines, railroads, machine-tool and other equipment makers. But the rally wilted as quickly as it grew, and the industrial index retreated to 848.50 -up a mere 1.90 points for the week...
...numbers from 5,000 in 1945 to 30,000 today; the number of their private worship places has risen from 70 to 425, some of them clandestine. In fact, one of the most challenging problems for Spain's Protestants will be to try and preserve the same fervor in their churches now that the period of official suppression has more or less ended...
...could it have been otherwise in a man so courageous in the quest of his ideals? One of the many stories told of him yesterday in this city may catch the quality of his influence. A student whose fervor for a certain cause of civil liberty had been dampened by the shrillness of its adherents went to hear Howe defend it. To the student it seemed that every word was a fiery dart of reasoned anger that pierced beyond all doubts. Possibly Mark Howe never guessed how many there were whose hearts he touched with fire because they sensed...
Undoubtedly the draft is responsible for some of this sudden upsurge in academic fervor. Lester sees still other causes. "During the Kennedy years," he says, "students were more enthusiastic about government service. Now they want something to fall back on. It's not just Johnson's personal nature...it's also...