Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reached Castro atop Pico Turquino, a 6,560-ft. mountain in the Sierra Maestra, where he started his revolution nine years ago. He was there, improbably enough, to award diplomas to 426 medical students, climaxing nearly a week of hoopla calculated to revive his people's flagging "revolutionary fervor." For four days and nights, students and friends had hiked up the mountain with the bearded dictator.* At one point during the trek, Castro called for helicopter delivery of 1,000 quarts of ice cream for his weary followers. Tons of food, TV cameras and electrical generating equipment were hauled...
...Citizens' pamphleteers worked day and night to counter the anti-busing fervor. They wrote, "the issue [racial imbalance] has been clouded by the false emphasis on busing, which has frightened people into forgetting that the real issue is educational progress of all children." They cited the Kiernan report, the document which led to the Imbalance Law, to prove that segregation was educationally harmful. Mrs. Hicks responded by pledging, in effect, to ignore the law. And one week ago, Mrs. Hicks and her four disciples rode a school bus into office...
...Would Be Mad." While Smith and his ministers talked on through the week, government radio and television stations were firing up the fervor for U.D.I, to a white heat. When Harold Wilson came up with a last-ditch proposal to send in a peace-keeping mission of "senior Commonwealth Prime Ministers," Smith's answer was that some of them might be black and that "we would be mad" to listen to "this sort of people." As telegrams from thousands of supporters poured in, there was little doubt that the overwhelming majority of Rhodesia's 250,000 whites wanted...
...other evils within one another's sectarianism, they eat away at our religious life. The less defensible the practices of a sect, the more it stands to gain by the "conspiracy of silence." While critics of sectarianism generally remain silent, zealous sectarians urge their points of view with emotional fervor. Free and frank evaluation would reduce many evils of sectarianism, but neither sectarian leadership nor sectarian dictatorship willingly sumbits to such evaluation...
...Coach Bruce Munro's boys will undoubtedly be ready for Columbia's fervor. They spent Thursday and Friday sharpening their game, speeding it up and developing accuracy in their long passes...