Word: fervor
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Colopy and his wife Loretta joined the center in the late 1940s, overwhelmed by Feeney's zeal and fervor. Married in 1949, they had five children by 1954. Then Feeney, gradually growing more dogmatic and rigorous as his suspicions of society deepened, decreed that the Slaves were to take vows of celibacy. All children born to his followers live apart from their parents, and Feeney is in sole charge of their education. Colopy testified that once one of his children asked him: "Mister, are you my father...
...occasion, sloblike old Mike Hammer has been retired in favor of one Tiger Mann. The difference is imperceptible except that Tiger is equipped with an ideological fervor so single-mindless that even the Birch Society might suspect he is some kind of nut. It seems that, thanks to "the college boys in striped pants and the eggheads in Washington, our government has become a joke all the way down into Mau-Mau territory"; the West is sure to "lose everything"-unless Tiger and his extragovernmental CIA can stanch a critical security leak at the U.N. The "commy bastards," it turns...
...LAOS. A Laotian bonze is likely to remind questioners that for a priest to talk politics violates one of the 227 Theravadan rules of conduct. The constitution stipulates that the King must be a "fervent Buddhist," but fervor in happy-go-lucky Laos covers a multitude of careless religious enthusiasms. Perennial civil war has left Buddhist practice virtually uninvolved, though near the Luang temple, skilled, cigarette-puffing monks cheerfully cast their Buddhas in brass melted down from 37-mm. and 105-mm. artillery cartridges...
...true "believers" simply refuse to accept the scientific evidence. They pursue their faith in extra-terrestrial saucers with almost religious fervor. It would indeed be unfortunate if the pressures brought by NICAP and others should cause our Congressional representatives to waste their time in such a series of hearings...
...With the fervor of an evangelist smoking out pockets of heathens, Lyndon Johnson in the last week of his campaign for election, went into those states where he thought the race with Barry Goldwater might be close. He roared through Florida, Georgia and South Carolina in the Deep South, through Indiana, Illinois and Kansas in the Midwest, through New Mexico, Utah and California in the West...