Word: fervor
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Zorlu returned from a London conference on the Cyprus issue convinced that the Turkish case required strengthening, told Premier Menderes and President Bayar that what was needed was some incident to spark a display of Turkish patriotic fervor. The plot to set off the Salonica bomb was then hatched...
Southern Baptists responded with renewed evangelical fervor. With Scriptures in their saddlebags, they followed the frontiersmen West, baptized in rivers, creeks and cow ponds, worshiped in barns and shacks, staged hell-raising, Bible-banging revivals in tents and private homes. Clapboard churches, throughout the South and Southwest, became the architectural landmark of the Baptist advance for nearly a century. Any man who heard the call was encouraged to grasp a Bible and summon a crowd...
...capsuled world beside Manhattan's East River spun on its axis with a fervor and furor unknown in the chronicle of nations. By last week the number of national leaders and heads of state at the United Nations 15th General Assembly meeting had grown to 26, and there were more to come. Spinning round them like a sputtering Sputnik was Nikita Khrushchev himself-tossing off dire threats in curbstone interviews, dishing out amiable insults, and defiling the decorum of the U.N. with desk-pounding, finger-waggling interruptions...
...money out of France to buy arms and munitions for the F.L.N. columns fighting the French in Algeria. All but six of the 25 were French men and women-teachers, mathematicians, TV producers, actors-who had betrayed the government of France not for money but out of an idealistic fervor of their own. One of the defendants, pale, thin France Binard, had lost eight members of her family in Nazi concentration camps. She said grimly: "I answer fully for what I have done. Through my presence here before you, I continue my fight." Defendant Jean-Claude Paupert. an ex-soldier...
...production is slick, the songs are good-notably one in which Crooner Frankie Vaughan says with fervor, in effect, never mind good lyrics, "give me a song that sells"-and the plot no thinner than most. The supporting actors are expert, especially Tony Randall, who plays Montand's pressagent with an accurate blend of servility and fresh-faced eagerness. One reason why the film, although consistently pleasant, is only fitfully funny may be a plague now widespread in Hollywood movies. Milton Berle, Gene Kelly and Bing Crosby appear in brief "cameo" parts as themselves (they are supposed...