Word: fervor
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...political purposes, or at least nurture it through November. Betty Ford, who had worried two years ago that the Bicentennial might be a mess, took her shoes off in her sitting room and declared she was amazed at the joy she encountered. She, too, let a little partisan fervor seep out, wondering in private if people did not understand that her husband had helped things along...
...colonists so far have been "well received by all the heathen whom we met. They brought their gifts of mussels and wild seeds, which were reciprocated with beads... And they were astonished at the cattle, which they had never seen before." Apparently it is chiefly the Spaniards' missionary fervor that drives them into these wilds, for there is no gold in California, and by most accounts it is a rough and desolate place, hardly worth settling...
...Governor's Own." He outfitted himself and his men with bright new uniforms, and he liked to appear on horseback at the head of his troop on the King's birthday. Then, on the fourth anniversary of the Boston Massacre, he publicly denounced the British with Ciceronian fervor: "Ye dark, designing knaves; ye murderers, parricides! How dare you tread upon the earth which has drank in the blood of slaughtered innocence...
...Warren's patriotic fervor has been further reinforced by her close association with several of the country's most prominent politicians. The Plymouth home of Mercy and her husband James Warren, who is now serving as president of Massachusetts' Provincial Congress, has been a meeting place for such leaders as Samuel and John Adams. An enthusiastic admirer of Mrs. Warren's satires, John Adams has encouraged her to wield her pen freely and "let the censure fall where it will...
...bitterness of the fighting and its undertones of religious fervor surprised and repelled not only foreigners but the Lebanese as well. Of more than 20,000 dead, the bulk were civilians caught in crossfire. Prisoners were rarely taken. Many people were summarily executed on the basis of religious affiliation. Bodies were often mutilated. Christians imagined themselves being pushed into the sea by a Moslem tide. Palestinian guerrillas, righting alongside the predominantly Moslem left, saw the grim possibility of another Black September, a reference to their losing battle in 1970 with King Hussein's troops in Jordan. Lebanon, the Palestinians...