Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days before Carter decided on his odyssey, he talked late one night with guests about his deepest worry-Israel was isolating itself in an increasingly hostile world. It had no other powerful friend besides the U.S., Carter noted with unusual fervor. Sadat had made a startling gesture for peace and Israel still quibbled. The Arabs were growing more hostile, richer, and they have enormous manpower. Western Europe, thirsting for oil, was irritated, and some of its leaders, like France's Giscard, were downright contemptuous of Israeli behavior. Nobody, continued the President, knew what would happen to American sentiments...
...discovered the self-benefits of helping others when it carried out the Marshall Plan with bipartisan fervor beginning in 1948. The U.S. was the first great power to use aid as a major instrument of foreign policy, and over the next two decades the nation was by far the biggest source of such assistance. There were many intricate reasons for America's subsequent disenchantment with foreign aid, but it became pronounced during the Viet Nam War. It was in 1968 that Congress radically slashed the proposed aid budget-by 40%, to a 21-year low of $1.75 billion. Since...
...battling the odds with McCarthyesque fervor, the Crimson women struggled to a tie for fourth place out of 17 teams, fading from first or second place only when they tired at the end of a 10-hour...
...Vice President Walter Mondale just a few days ago, talking to visiting editors, was condemning earlier U.S. covert operations in Chile. These "efforts to manipulate the internal affairs of another society," he suggested, would shame us for a generation. Parson's son that he is, Mondale in his fervor implied that the Administration felt that representing U.S. interests in such fashion was sinful, a position that shows some misunderstanding of what actually went on in Chile...
...reaching way back into blues history for a solo that matches the spirit of the piece. "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting" goes back to 1959, when Mingus recorded it on his Blues and Roots album. This arrangement begins and ends with singing and handclapping, which set a tone of unrestrained fervor. The climax of this rough and rambling church shout is a flaming tenor solo by Ricky Ford, the last in a long line of great saxophonists who discovered themselves in Mingus's Jazz Workshops. In "Caroline 'Keki' Mingus," a ballad, altoist Lee Konitz lovingly introduces a theme which is then...