Word: fervor
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Down here in New York the football fervor is reaching its customary stage of mild mania and this year they are tormenting us with a new charge, emanating primarily from Princeton. Our schedule, they claim, lacks virility. We must go on the offensive and you may be interested in a recent exchange of sentiments I had with a Princetonian. I think you will agree that their 24-game winning streak was a bit of a sham...
...publishers (a Fort Worth firm whose first book this is) cut out 250 pages and could profitably have lopped off 200 more. But though Devil is crudely written as well as overwritten, it has some things relatively rare in U.S. letters: energy, earnestness and unashamed religious fervor...
...spite of a string of poor football teams, Davidson men have still continued to support the Wildcats with the same fervor that marked the hey-day of football at the little Southern school back in the '30s. Everyone goes to the home games, and many men follow the team on the conference road trips...
...high point of all anti-Conant fervor came just before the last war when the president was an ardent advocate of aid to Great Britain and further intervention by the United States. He naturally supported the nation's first peace-time draft. This naturally engendered a certain hostility from the College, since some undergraduates got the idea that Conant was trying to force them all into the Army to get shot at. This was hardly a fair attitude, especially since one of his two sons was at the time eminently draftable, but student picketing of Conant speeches nevertheless became...
Elaborate attempts have been made by statesmen from both parties to strike a truce-but they could not control the countryside partisans. More recently the Catholic Church, bulwarked by an appeal from Pius XII and parades displaying great fervor for peace, tried to halt the war but failed. Now the only limitation on the ferocity of the struggle seems to be the amount of arms the guerrillas can smuggle over the border or seize from dead policemen...