Word: fervor
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...desirable and economical in an era of violent food-price inflation. So think multitudes of Americans, who are growing vegetables in backyards, vacant lots, apartment-house window boxes and even swimming pools, with a zeal unmatched since the Victory Garden days of World War II. Some examples of the fervor...
...Southeast Asia. But despite all the shuffling of actors and the valuable lessons the United States is supposed to have learned during its 14 years of involvement in Vietnam, not much has changed. American Southeast Asia policy continues to be dictated by the same basic assumptions and anti communist fervor which have guided it from the start...
...speaks with humility, yet fervor about his most recent gangbustings for truth: tracking down one of the "Big Eight" oil companies which is siphoning oil from neighboring naval reserves; scaring a Congressman who padded his expense accounts away from a re-election bid; and being the prime force behind a just-passed (but "totally ineffective") Senate resolution barring the use of U.S. ships to float oil tax-free from the Arab states to South Vietnam...
...time part-time educational administrator at Harvard, I believe that in most instances alumni objections to University personnel decisions are meddlesome and of little value. I also have little faith in the influence on decision making of letters to public officials or organs on major issues, my fervor having gotten the better of my skepticism on only one other occasion, in a letter to Mr. Rodino after the cancellation of Professor Cox's employment in Washington. There are times, however, as the Cox case, though on a different level, illustrates, when a personnel issue and comments by citizens and alumni...
This was a benefit concert, but one devoid of exhortations or affirmations of moral fervor. More eloquently than any words, the music bespoke the humanitarian impulse which had brought these musicians and listeners together...