Word: fervor
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From New York to Los Angeles and from Copenhagen to Delhi, demonstrations were held to protest the Soviet tests. But they seemed, somehow, to have little more fervor than such anti-U.S. demonstrations as those generated by the executions of convicted Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Abductor Caryl Chessman. In this sense, Khrushchev appeared to have won his gamble...
...jammed, stiffling hot third floor chamber, combined with the efforts of numerous hecklers, created an explosive atmosphere which seemed to prompt volatile speaker Vargas to extraordinary extremes of fervor...
...WILLIAM TELL (New Glaurus, Wis.), an import from Europe, is a lavish adaptation of Schiller's play particularly popular with Wisconsin's Swiss-Americans. At the climax, the Swiss hero draws his bow with fervor, shoots the apple from his son's head (the boy nods on cue, the apple falls, he leans over and picks up another one hidden in the grass with a shill arrow in it). In the audience, half the town roars with pride-the other half is in the play...
...Tardini and Canali) to die within eight days; after a long circulatory illness; in Mechlin, Belgium. A lifelong political activist known to his flock as "the Iron Bishop," Cardinal Van Roey excommunicated World War II Belgian quislings, unsuccessfully opposed the abdication of ex-King Leopold, and denounced with equal fervor his nation's prewar fascists and postwar socialists...
...three invasion attempts by guerrilla bands. Lisbon accused Portuguese Guinea's neighbor, Senegal, of helping the rebels; Senegal retaliated by promptly breaking off diplomatic relations with Lisbon. Even the large and prosperous East African colony of Mozambique, which has so far been quiet, is stirring with nationalist fervor. Mozambique rebels in nearby Tanganyika, given asylum by Prime Minister Julius Nyerere, boast that they will soon turn the colony into "another Angola...