Word: fervor
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...youth he fell in love with the beauteous and fragile Catherine Carey; how the pressure of family and circumstance forced him to give her up; how she flirted around in college, then married a quasi-brutish, brilliant and sensitive medical student, Jerome Martell; how Martell, in his masculine fervor, was unfaithful to her, then left her to fight in Spain; how Martell was officially reported tortured and killed by the Nazis; how he, Stewart, at last marries his Catherine; and how, miraculously, the invincible Martell proved that reports of his death were greatly exaggerated and returned only to find Catherine...
...mass rally in Atlanta last week, Southern moderates spoke with a fervor and eloquence they often lack. Said Sylvan Meyer, 37, editor of north Georgia's Gainesville Times: "Our state leaders have failed us miserably. The doctrine of state sovereignty died at Appomattox and was reinterred at Little Rock." His applauding listeners: 1,500 parents, civic leaders and students, members of a brand-new organization of protesting moderates, HOPE, Inc. (for Help Our Public Education) and its student counterpart, SOS (Students for Open Schools...
...being not President but Secretary of State, a man who had trained for the job during 50 years of corporation law and international diplomacy, Dulles translated his respect for Theodore Roosevelt's lessons about peace-by-power and Woodrow Wilson's lessons about peace-by-moral-fervor into a gleaming weapon against Communism...
...beauty of Blake Edwards' direction is that it restores to these familiar jokes something of their first fine fervor and surprise. The man obviously loves his material, and he has fired the players with something of his own excitement. Even bored old Keenan Wynn is back at his best. Cast as a great big horrible actors' agent. Actor Wynn slinks about the screen looking like an absurdly prosperous tapir in dark glasses. But when a terrified female pressagent informs him that his big star is pregnant, Wynn reduces his face to a heap of malevolent hamburger, and produces...
Again and again Batista's army announced that "the campaign is almost won." But his 1,000 barracks-fat soldiers around the Sierra Maestra showed less and less hunger for the fight. In the long stalemate the rebel army grew in size and fervor. Castro talked and talked of his dreams for Cuba, sitting up until dawn in the huts of the guajíros-the squatters who farm the rugged mountains. "It is not right," he said, "that a man should go to prison for robbery when he is able to work, wants to work and cannot find...