Word: fervor
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...marked FED UP. That puts Britain on the same political map as much of Western Europe and North America, where a fragmented vote is steadily chipping away at ruling- party majorities. On both sides of the Atlantic, voters have been seized by a throw-the-bums-out fervor that is confounded by the lack of attractive alternatives...
...that fact doesn't interfere with the parties taking place in Washington. The "flyers" of transcendental meditation spend $5,000 and up to learn how to bounce around on a rubber mattress, but they never get airborne. No amount of evidence against any transcendental claims will dampen the fervor of the believers...
Nationalistic fervor, once quiescent among Israeli Arabs, has grown steadily since Israel captured the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the 1967 war. That put the Arabs in direct contact with their Palestinian brethren in the territories. With the start of the intifadeh in 1987, Israeli Arabs, in limited numbers, began to throw stones and Molotov cocktails at Jews, to fly the banned Palestinian flag and to paint radical slogans on town walls...
...February hackings near Galed underscored a potentially more disruptive development: the rise among Israeli Arabs of Islamic fervor, complete with a fanatic streak. The four Arabs charged with the killings were all followers of the Islamic Movement, a fundamentalist organization that is legal in Israel. Police say they were also members of Islamic Jihad, the outlawed militant group that is Mideast-wide...
...lead singer, Dito, does sound like Bono--but sans the passion. His voice is even scratchy enough at times to mimic Bryan Adams', but, again, with a fraction of the fervor...