Word: fervors
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...That hasn't stopped the party from at least toying with the patriotic on/off switch. You could see the process playing out in real time on the Internet, where the nation's censors worked overtime to sharpen the anti-American fervor by erasing pro-U.S. Web postings. The website of the People's Daily, the nation's largest paper, employed nine monitors, who sifted through 20,000 postings a day to make sure sentiment agreed with the party line...
...with anticipation, his manner one of assurance. I knew him pretty well, and later when I learned the whole story of the Bay of Pigs I could see how the plan would capture his imagination. It was everything the Kennedys were about; the terrible swift sword delivered with righteous fervor against a contemptible foe. And it was in the cause of freedom - and the greater glory of the Kennedys. Magnificent, macho, melodramatic...
...Known For: Stem-winding oratory, religious fervor, knowing what the voters wanted...
...control and ended up bringing down the government. When a group of Qinghua University students tried to organize a demonstration in Beijing last week, the government squelched it. For the time being, China's future leaders will have to rely on video games to vent their patriotic fervor...
...approach to journalism is a way to engage readers and allow them to visualize clearly the entire issue," wrote a Los Angeles reader. A TIME reader in Monroe, Conn., got pretty colorful himself: "Even the most highly educated readers may dive into this piece with the kind of youthful fervor they remember when buying the latest Archie comic book, though the West Bank is far from Riverdale, and you won't find Archie, Betty and Veronica living there...