Word: fervor
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...Carter Administration has its way, America's intelligence community will seize the recent resurgence of military fervor to wriggle out of unwelcome Congressional and public restraints. Carter paints the effort to clothe intelligence agencies in responsibility as a straitjacket that will hamper our intrepid intelligence-gatherers from carrying out their duties in an era of deepening danger to American security. The president is now pushing not just to limit Congressional oversight of intelligence activities but to legalize and codify a whole range of "acceptable" practices that threaten both domestic civil rights and foreign sovereignty...
...Iowans liked Philip Crane's fast, hard answer against the grain embargo better than Ted Kennedy's hesitant objection. Moreover, the Crane jaw was just as finely formed and the hair was equally abundant. John Anderson's eloquent appeal for compassionate government had more fact and fervor than did Teddy's. Anderson's endorsement of the grain embargo, while not liked by those folks, nevertheless set him up as a more creditable figure than Kennedy...
...also consider some of the less sanguine projections. The disaffected young would have been rebelliously out front browbeating the Establishment in waves of dissent that would have continued to expand after the 1960s. Widespread religious fervor would have found a channel in a holy crusade against technology. Assassinations would have been frequent. Unrest would have swept through high schools. A grain glut might have triggered an agricultural depression. A breakdown of the cities would have produced chaos beyond anything ever seen before. Some urban areas would have banned the use of gasoline-powered automobiles. Do-it-yourself facelifts would have...
Moscow's primary purpose in invading Afghanistan, most experts agree, was simply to tighten its control of that rebellious country. The tide of Islamic fervor, which had already shaken Iran, was now threatening Afghanistan. Unless it were checked, might it not also spread across the border into the Soviet Central Asian Republics and stir unrest among their substantial Islamic populations? Thus Soviet leaders probably felt that they had only two options: 1) to allow a Moscow-leaning socialist state on their border to dissolve into chaos and possibly pass into the hands of Muslim fanatics or 2) to move forcefully...
...expert: "Winter is the killing season, when there is nothing to do but go out and shoot." The tribes are hopelessly disunited and fight constantly among themselves. But for the most part they dislike central authority, they distrust foreigners?particularly Russians ?and they have fought with rising fervor against the Kabul government ever since the Soviet-backed regime of President Taraki came to power in April...