Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Francesca DenHartog has better states. The women are seeded fifth in the nation while the men's lacrosse is not even breaking even. Don't tell me that women's sports are "just not spectator sports" when the spectators can hardly find the publicity that instills such fan fervor! Inga L. Parsons...
...addition to questioning the effectiveness. Bok argued that divesting only from South Africa-related companies would be inconsistent, since there are "groups who might not view South Africa as a special case and would press the University with equal fervor to extend its embargo to avoid any connection with Guatemala, El Salvador, and the Soviet Union, and other countries toward which they had strong moral objections...
...President, who clearly enjoys his job, has confided to close aides that he does not see anyone to whom he could confidently entrust the completion of his ideological mission. Baker, Dole or even Bush, he fears, would not be conservative enough; Kemp has the necessary right-wing fervor, but in Reagan's view may not be mature enough yet for the presidency. To White House Deputy Chief of Staff Deaver, the political calculus is clear: "Who else is there? I think Reagan will run." -By George J. Church. Reported by Douglas Brew/Washington
...therefore, was political, silencing those on the New Right who have wondered whether the President has forgotten them. Just as commentators on Chinese affairs have noted that parts of speeches by Chinese leaders are designed to satisfy the large Marist port of the Communist Party which joined during the fervor of the Cultural Revolution, so Reagan's speeches may be intended to satisfy his own domestic critics, particularly those on the right, whom one would not ordinarily expect to be critical of the president...
...most impressive aspects of the Tosches biography, and one of the most memorable moments on The Sun Years, is the depth of Lewis' fundamentalist fervor. Before the tapes roll on one take of Great Balls of Fire, Lewis can be heard locked in feverish theological debate with a somewhat astonished Sam Phillips. The intensity is scary and spellbinding, and leaves no doubt about with whom Jerry Lee believes he has cast his lot. "You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have...