Word: fervor
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...accused would be allowed to resign rather than be dismissed. The President announced an inquiry into sports at service schools, but spoke in tones which suggested that few applecarts would be overturned. The most investigation-minded Congress in many a decade, for once, could generate no fervor for investigation...
Although philistines may claim that the only reason some Harvard men develop a fervor for old cars is that they can't afford a new one, devotee owners stoutly maintain that the time-mellowed heaps which rest in sagging splendor on the side streets from the Yard to the river are symbols of an all but vanished era of gracious living...
Nehru got his chance at Bangalore where 350 members of the All India Congress Committee met to make plans for India's forthcoming general elections (probably at the end of 1951). With evangelical fervor, Nehru campaigned for Congress Party reforms, told members that it would be better for them to lose the elections than lose their souls. Before a nineteen-member working committee, Nehru demanded reorganization of the Congress Party's election board (which nominates candidates) so as to give his own followers a chance against Tandon's party machine. He also asked that charges of corruption...
...word that issues from that pulpit has changed drastically, too. Except in the South, evangelical fervor is on the discard in most of the "leading" Protestant denominations. Methodist Hutchinson is not happy about what has replaced it: "A kind of preaching which, at its best, is in direct descent from the ethical insights of the Old Testament prophets, but which too often is diluted from that into something perilously akin to that careful moralism against which the Evangelical Revival revolted...
Contacted last night director Johann Wolfgang Schneider, world-famous blower and Bock enthusiast, said that his band would render everything it could lay its hands on. "We'll tear through Souse and Schlitz with equal fervor," he said, "and anything else we can see--which won't be much...