Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Schmoke is one of the few elected officials who has dared to swim against the current of the "Say 'No' To Drugs" fervor. He argues that the country might be better by simply conceding the war against drugs and make the best of a bad situation...
...credentials as a leader in the war against drugs, providing a rehearsal for the opening skirmish in the general election campaign. In Washington, meanwhile, the Senate was getting into the act with a measure authorizing increased spending in the drug war and cracking down on Mexico with a political fervor that belied common sense...
Some tempers cracked under the strain of the early hour, letting out signs of patriotic fervor. "That's an absurd rule. Isn't that what the Revolution was about?" said one man, angered by the demands of a security officer in 18th-century uniform that he stay behind the ropes...
...this effort is intended to reproduce the campus upheavals of 1969 which destroyed the presidency of Nathan Pusey and won Harvard national condemnation. But if the protests of recent years have proved anything, they have showed that today's activists have nothing like the fervor, determination or devotion those 1960s men and women did. The protesters of the 1980s seem too fascinated by calculated war plans and too worried by arrest to follow in the footsteps of their predecessors...
...even if he was far short of the 2,082 delegates needed to win. It was always an odd theory: anointing a candidate who failed to win close to a majority was preferable to the uncertainty of a brokered convention. But the party embraced Kirk's notion with such fervor that it may rally around Jackson if he is the delegate leader after California...