Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shoot-out with Israeli security forces last month have been identified as members of the Islamic Jihad, which is becoming the chief fomenter of violence in Gaza. Though Israeli officials tend to link Gaza's radicals to the P.L.O., the militants appear to be motivated as much by religious fervor as by politics -- a development that could prove extremely troublesome for Jerusalem...
...bitterness" against the Speaker. Some of that is normal in the election season, but it seemed to go beyond all bounds last week when Georgia's Newt Gingrich stormed through Florida calling Wright a "genuinely corrupt man" and comparing him to Mussolini. Even given Gingrich's right-wing fervor, that is startling stuff...
Arthur Miller undertakes the story of his 72 years with almost none of those disadvantages. His best-known works are for the stage, a collaborative medium and, in his view, one meant to arouse passions. His plays have frequently been topical, occasionally incendiary, and he researched them with the fervor of an investigative journalist. Opinionated and outspoken, he relished the platform that his fame provided and undertook a running battle with McCarthyite elements in Government. They retaliated by stripping him of his passport, summoning him before the House Un-American Activities Committee and trying him for contempt of Congress...
Faced with at least three other rebel groups, Museveni was slow in committing his troops to quell the Holy Spirit Movement. Beginning in October, however, heavily armed government forces went on the offensive, with predictable results. With all the fervor of a fanatic, Alice continued to press-gang new recruits and ordered the death of doubters. "We leave everything in the hands of God," she said three weeks ago, sitting in the dappled shade of a banana grove near Lake Victoria. By the time Mama Alice went into hiding two weeks later, seated on a bicycle that was being pushed...
Sharansky warned against allowing Gorbachev's release of the few well-known names to calm down the fervor of American supporters of Soviet Jews...