Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adding that "we conducted relations, not negotiations." Peres appeals to the Egyptians because he is seen as being less dogmatic than Begin about Israel's need to control all of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Moreover, he would bring to the negotiations none of the biblical fervor that fires Begin to claim the West Bank (or Judea and Samaria, as he calls it) as the historical birthright of the Jews; the Egyptians find that position exasperating and irrational. By contrast, Peres favors a plan that calls for the return of nonstrategic portions of the West Bank...
...despair create a palpable tension in the audience. The alacrity of his mood swings--at one point he switches instantly from a curious and confused six-year-old to a wretched adolescent screaming violently at the top of his lungs--has an almost eerie effect. Likewise the solemnity and fervor in his ritual mounting of Equus, riding him until he is caught in a libidinous-religious frenzy...
...frenetic fervor that engulfed New Hampshire in February has dissipated. By all accounts, the state is solid Ronald Reagan country. His organizers walk around with smug smiles: "We've got this state easily," they say, invariably lowering their voices as if bellowing out the foregone conclusion would be in bad taste, or worse, bring bad luck. The Reagan people work from nine-to-five, the kind of hours their favorite kept up when he was governor of California. The Republican's campaign headquarters are spacious, and, for the most part, empty. No more envelopes left to stuff, no more door...
Life is uncomfortable, but in the fervor of war few complain...
...remain in force forever." Retorted his passenger, an elderly man pressing an attaché case against his breast: "It is a good thing God does not grant taxi drivers' wishes." The shortage of fuel has made life uncomfortable for Tehran's 7 million people, but in the fervor of the war between "Islam and paganism," there are few complaints. An Iranian journalist sent the following report to TIME...