Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theses are so likely to unite U.S. editors and publishers in righteous fervor as the notion that, justice being the public's business, the press has a right to exercise its constitutional freedom in covering court trials...
Hence there is reason for surprise at the present fervor of Harvard undergraduates. At no time since the Thirties, and certainly not since the collapse of post-war idealism in 1948, has such a wave a political activism swept Cambridge. The sudden appearance, within a few months, of the single issue clubs—LCIC, SANE, 1001(f), and the Capital Punishment Committee—is tending to make obsolete the charge of “student apathy...
...upon the 18th Amendment as an imposition by the Protestant majority. But the very aspects of Al Smith that endeared him to big-city working-class Americans of Irish, Latin, Slavic and Jewish origins tended to repel older-stock Protestant Americans, some who were dedicated to Prohibition with religious fervor, and some who opposed Prohibition but joined in looking with dislike-or at least distrust-upon big cities, foreign accents and the Roman Catholic Church...
Among the ten Republican Senators up for re-election this year, none have supported President Eisenhower's policies with more consistent fervor than New Jersey's spare (5 ft.11½ in., 160 lbs.), studious Clifford Case, 56. Since he went to the Senate in 1955, Case has voted with the Administration 83.6% of the time. With this record Case has won a reputation as a solid-gold Modern Republican, but he has lost support of many Old Guard Republicans back in New Jersey. To oppose Case in next week's primary election , Old Guardists have...
...fact, no other baseball fan in the world celebrates his sport with the bellowing fervor of the Caribbean aficionado. He has plenty to shout about: winter baseball brings back the home-town boys who have streamed north to the U.S. to find fame in the majors. In the nine leagues around the Caribbean this season, fans could get a close-hand look once again at such stars as the White Sox's Luis Aparicio (Venezuela's Rapinos), the Indians' Vic Power (Puerto Rico's Ca-guas), the Giants' Orlando Cepeda (Puerto Rico's Santurce...