Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moment will be electric, and not only because John Paul helped inflame the fervor for freedom in his Polish homeland that has swept like brush fire across Eastern Europe. Beyond that, the meeting of the two men symbolizes the end of the 20th century's most dramatic spiritual war, a conflict in which the seemingly irresistible force of Communism battered against the immovable object of Christianity...
Rebirth of the Ukrainian churches may stir the sort of nationalist fervor that is inextricably linked with religion. Along with economic failure, this unrest poses the gravest of threats to Gorbachev's regime. Yet Gorbachev apparently calculates that the movement will be safer aboveground and in contact with a Pope who preaches against political violence. The major reason that Gorbachev has not done more for the Ukrainian Catholics has been pressure from the Russian Orthodoxy, which stands to lose half its flock in some regions...
Gorbachev's implausible visit this week to Pope John Paul II, who helped ^ inflame the fervor for freedom, follows an era of brutal Kremlin terror against Eastern Europe's Christians...
...fervor may be deceiving, and official figures are telling. According to statistics from the school's Office of Career Services, about 70 percent of its students enter private firms upon graduation...
WORLD: Nationalist fervor sweeps the Baltic states...