Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...line but also (and here I speak) with all the pedantry at my command) changes Fitzgerald’s rather archaic "were." meaning "would be" in the apodosis of a conditional sentence, into part of an portative construction, expressing a wish. To my car this conveys a little more fervor about the Yard than more gallantry to the cow would require. Robert Fitzgerald Lecturer on English
...hair, he looked like he would have been at home in the American Senate of the last century, trading stares with Webster and Calhoun. His energy appeared inexhaustable; the roles of journalist and professor, Yugoslav patriot and international intellectual, revolutionary and humanist seemed to struggle inside him with the fervor of old and friendly competitors. The tensions were there, but they were sources of strength, not weakness...
...number and variety of pilgrims on this year's hajj were living proof of the fervor that burns within the youngest of the world's universal faiths, second in size only to Christianity. According to Islam's mission-minded Ahmadiyya movement, there are 647 million Moslems around the world; less partial statisticians lower the figure to a still impressive 465 million. Today, 35 countries in Africa and Asia have Moslem majorities. In much of West Africa, Islam now gains converts at a 9-to-l ratio over Christianity...
...production heightens O'Casey's humor, but as an ironic foil for his sadness. The characters' sanguine outlook keeps them from taking themselves or their situation too seriously. They have time for funereal jokes while artillery shells are bursting near them. They take the the edge off their political fervor by going home with a prostitute...
Kanashima returns to Japan and, as the space race develops over the years, figures out that the U.S. and Russia are bogged down by the problem of how to get the lunarnaut back to earth. Dr. Kanashima surmounts this technological scruple through superior moral force. With the fervor of a kamikaze, he flings himself into the wild blue yonder knowing it will be only a one-way trip...