Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...success story. For McDonald's accomplishment has been compared to that of the man who invented the paper clip. They took the lowly beef patty and made an ideology out of it. How did dining under the heavenly golden arches become a transcendental experience, capturing national enthusiasm with a fervor surpassed only by the space program and World War II? How did just another greasy burger joint become a multinational corporation with sales surpassing the GNP of some nations, a powerful lobbyist with a very friendly Congressman and the nation's largest employer of young people...
...shrinelike cases that hold the documents. Honeymooners Karen and Philip pause for long moments. Bonnie, a senior on her class trip from Starbuck, Minn., traces with her fingertip the familiar signatures: G. Washington, B. Franklin. Principal Dennis Trump, shepherding 40 students from South Sioux City (Neb.) High, says with fervor, "It's a feeling of splendor to see the things you hold dear. All the meaning and truth of the whole idea come together...
Nothing arouses more fascination, suspicion and questions than Carter's deep-seated religious convictions. He contends that he does not inject them into his campaigning. But the two are inescapably intertwined, producing a blend of William Jennings Bryan's religious fervor and Woodrow Wilson's moral idealism...
...Bach Society's year and to Stulberg's career as its conductor. Both the orchestra and the audience responded enthusiastically to the resounding final chords of the piece, sharing the poignantly conflicting feelings associated with the end of an outstanding year. In its technical polish and emotional fervor, the performance of the Brahms was emblematic of the Bach Society's season...
Bartlett and his fellow caddies imbued with a missionary fervor, have gone a long way towards propagating the game. Another notable golfing afficionado was a British army captain named Joseph Cambell, who had his humble origins as a caddy in Glasgow. Cambell was commanding the British stockade in the Bahamas when he got a craving for the links. He set to work fashioning makeshift clubs out of bamboo saplings and used knots of the native lignum vitae tree to mold golf balls. Cambell laid out a course on the parade grounds below Nassau, and gold was born...