Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...home, in the wake of elections he narrowly won, Adenauer is probably less popular than ever. In the West, some wish he had given way to a younger, more tractable man. Yet by an extraordinary combination of high moral fervor and ruthless political skill, Adenauer, at the start of his fourth term as Chancellor, remains the unshakable spokesman for his nation-the man who led defeated and despised Germany firmly into "the Christian world of the West...
...night sacked out in his spacious office in the Alabama gym. On the practice field he is a relentless, brutal taskmaster who orders players, managers, trainers and coaches alike through every drill on the dead run. Off field or on, he lives, eats and breathes football with an angry fervor that few rival coaches can pretend to understand. At 7 one morning, so a Bryant legend goes, Bear picked up his phone and dialed Auburn University's athletic office, trying to clear up a ticket hassle. "Let me speak to Coach Ralph Jordan, please," he asked. Jordan...
From New York to Los Angeles and from Copenhagen to Delhi, demonstrations were held to protest the Soviet tests. But they seemed, somehow, to have little more fervor than such anti-U.S. demonstrations as those generated by the executions of convicted Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Abductor Caryl Chessman. In this sense, Khrushchev appeared to have won his gamble...
...jammed, stiffling hot third floor chamber, combined with the efforts of numerous hecklers, created an explosive atmosphere which seemed to prompt volatile speaker Vargas to extraordinary extremes of fervor...
...WILLIAM TELL (New Glaurus, Wis.), an import from Europe, is a lavish adaptation of Schiller's play particularly popular with Wisconsin's Swiss-Americans. At the climax, the Swiss hero draws his bow with fervor, shoots the apple from his son's head (the boy nods on cue, the apple falls, he leans over and picks up another one hidden in the grass with a shill arrow in it). In the audience, half the town roars with pride-the other half is in the play...