Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That crowd was too big for Hassan, who proposed a cozier group to meet in Bamako, Mali, with President Keita, Emperor Haile Selassie and Ben Bella. Although Algeria finally agreed, neither side seemed particularly eager to settle the war, because the political benefits of patriotic fervor were considerable. Ben Bella was drafting all his unemployed into the army, and Hassan's own domestic opposition faded, at least temporarily, while crowds cheered him and kissed his hands...
...seventh-floor executive suite. He makes sure to get out of the basement before 9:30-for that is a dangerous hour at Filene's. As soon as the opening gong rings, a stampede of waiting shoppers surges through the doors and overruns the basement with a fervor that has often caused near-riots. They are there to get first pick of the low-cost luxuries that have made Filene's Basement the world's most unusual bargain store...
...fourposter in the mansion back in 1957. Worse than that, he had gone on statewide TV in the fall of 1960 to support Kennedy for President. Said Johnson from every stump: "Coleman can't get the Kennedy albatross from around his neck.' Johnson insisted with pride and fervor that he had "stood up for Mississippi" at Ole Miss, so wasn't it about time Mississippi stood up for him? For comic relief, he threw in a surefire laugh-getter: "You know what the N.A.A.C.P. stands for: Niggers, alligators apes, coons and possums...
...back of eastern Peru by canoe and mule team; ever since, he has talked endlessly of the riches that lie away from the sea, beyond the Andes. To open up the area to farmers and livestock producers, he talks of a new $216 million highway with almost mystical fervor. Another ambition is to start communal self-help programs, following a pattern set back in the old Inca empire days...
...Argentines talk heatedly about oil. At one time, in a burst of nationalist fervor, foreign firms were forbidden from prospecting-only to have the government monopoly (Y.P.F.) do so poorly that most of Argentina's unfavorable trade balance came from importing oil. President Arturo Frondizi allowed foreign oilmen back in 1958. They have saved the nation some $170 million a year in imports by more than doubling oil production to 96 million bbl. annually. But there is also a feeling among many local Latins that contracts with foreign oilmen are too generous...