Word: fervor
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Although most persons in the stands were primarily concerned with the battle being fought on the field, talk of Cuba and the international crisis was heard everywhere. There was a special fervor in the crowd when the "Star Spangled Banner" was sung...
...hands; of a heart attack; in Konnersreuth, Germany. Therese permitted herself to be viewed on Good Fridays by Roman Catholics, many of whom considered her to be a living saint; the Vatican remained neutral and doctors considered her affliction a nervous disorder conditioned by her religious fervor...
Owner of a 400-acre hog-and-cattle farm near Rea, Mo., Staley, 39, directs the N.F.O. with evangelistic fervor and a shrewd eye. When the Committee for Economic Development issued a report in July saying that the number...
...probe the origins of the concept among the primitive men of 30,000 years ago, who provided their corpses with weapons to see them through death's terrors. Obviously the idea of heaven had a rise in evolution's slow periods-and, battered by the investigative fervor of science, has it not had a fall too? In a new book that attempts to survey the history of man's conception of destiny, a British cleric and scholar raises this question, and ends with an answer trembling on his tongue. The answer seems...
Despite the eloquence with which he presents his Gandhian philosophy (see box), King himself has failed to convince Albany's Negroes. For one thing, many Negroes throughout the South suspect that too much success has drained him of the captivating fervor that made him famous. Says a Negro: "Martin comes in wearing his spiritual halo and blows on his flute and the money comes pouring in. But he doesn't even speak for the Baptist ministry, let alone 20 million Negroes...