Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disaster for Iraq. Dozens of burned-out Soviet-built tanks and hundreds of armored vehicles Uttered the flatlands, many mired in sand softened by March rains. A charred radar dish was draped with a poster of Khomeini and banners that proclaimed GOD is GREAT! Fired by religious fervor and a belief in the rightness of their cause, Iranian soldiers have proved to be a far more potent fighting force than Saddam Hussein expected. "When you believe in God, you win," said a young fighter pilot who, like many Iranians, had been trained in the U.S.; he still wore a breast...
With his usual fervor, Texan John Connally spouted some of the same heresy on a recent visit to Washington. Connally, who was once Secretary of the Navy, would chop $10 billion from the defense budget, and then use that cut as a club to get Congress to hold down the entitlement programs that mainly benefit the middle class and will be responsible for a big chunk of the new deficits. Break the old constraints, Connally pleaded, or soon it will be too late...
Despite its old-time movie aspects, this international confrontation has no easy, predictable solution. Nationalistic fervor runs high in both countries and two embattled governments, each badly needing a clear-cut victory, are heading quickly toward a clash. Ideally, the two nations will capitalize on the lag-time provided as the British fleet moves southward by resurrecting a proposal made last year. Argentina sovereignty over the Falklands, but allow Britain to lease them for some years until a permanent solution is negotiated. During this leasehold, the two nations would share the oil and mineral revenues from the islands and surrounding...
...revolutionary fervor mounts high enough to lend credence to another program note on the play's history, which has become a theatrical legend: Originally written as a Federal Theater Project, Cradle was censored by its federal "employers," who refused to allow the actors to set foot on stage, so the pianist played while actors spoke the lines from their seats in the house. There are rough edges in this production, notably the awkward casting of Lars Gunnar-Wigemark as two very different characters in back-to-back scenes, and roughest among them remains the attempt to square things with...
...knows what is happening. But if anything, his growing isolation seems to give him more fervor to hold his course. "I will not budge ... I intend to stand firm ... I am not going to change." These are declarations to the dozens of visiting members of Congress who have trudged through the Oval Office in the past few days. Most of them have pleaded with him to raise more tax revenue, cap entitlement and defense programs and reduce the deficits...