Word: fervor
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Vincent Lombardi set out to study for the Roman Catholic priesthood, but along the way he discovered another religion: football. To it, he brought his special brand of apostolic dedication and evangelical fervor. "Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing," was Lombardi's creed, and the scourge was his method. He elevated coaching to the level of mysticism, and his principal disciples-the Green Bay Packers-became the most spectacularly successful team in the history of professional football. Under his messianic lash, the Packers were the rulers of their brutal profession for nearly a decade...
...episodes in the recent history of campus disorder. Rhodes was referring to Richard Nixon's Commission on Campus Unrest, of which he is the only student member. By "oh-deeing"?a hophead term for a drug overdose?he meant that the other commissioners have been startled by the fervor of the students and the severity of the country's reaction to collegiate violence...
...Erich Segal, sometimes like a Richard Nixon. Or, more frightening, the End is in the eyes of a street kid asking for change, in the shaking hands of your friend crashing on exam-period speed, in the magazine covers that report the battle of the hemline with the fervor of Edwin R. Murrow covering the blitz...
...Joan Ganz Cooney's Sesame Street operation. His precise duties are still to be determined, and he will earn only about one-quarter of his CBS salary. Dann brings with him scheduling savvy, promotional wizardry (he started in the business in the NBC publicity department) and competitive fervor-all traits much needed in noncommercial television...
...course of the heated discussion. Peter Camejo of the Socialist Workers Party gave a speech which managed to inflame the passions of the members of PL. Starting off slowly and with control, he would gradually increase the speed and fervor of his remarks until he reached a shrill, unintelligible climax which would be drowned out in the applause of the moderate group, and the angry cries of the PL members. He said PL did not want to align with any sell outs, and then accused PL of feeling that everyone was a sellout except themselves...