Word: fervor
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...Angeles, a clutch of angry, elderly demonstrators stormed a U.N. flag-raising ceremony. They chanted "U.N. is un-American," wagged U.S. flags in the faces of sheepish councilmen. The Chicago Tribune discovered a lady sewing on a U.N. flag, and the anti-U.N. fervor swept Tribune-land. Illinois V.F.W. and American Legion posts passed resolutions. The Aurora city council banned the U.N. flag from public buildings because "Russian Communists remain in the United Nations." In Highland Park, the local D.A.R. insisted that the U.N. flag come down. It did. The Parent-Teacher Association insisted it go back up. Town...
...Reporters Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen whirled to journalistic fame on the Washington Merry-Go-Round. The book, and its continuation in a daily column of the same title, told the backstairs story of Washington politics with all the urgency of a cloakroom whisper, and the crusading fervor of a revival meeting...
...that the bourgeoisie guided culture. On these slender foundations arose a whole school of Marxist philology. Its chief oracle was a philology professor called Nikolai Marr, the son of a Scottish father and a Georgian mother; he was 53 when the revolution broke out, but embraced Bolshevism with youthful fervor. Marr advocated the development of one universal language, not necessarily Russian, for World Communism. Marr died in 1934, but his work was carried on by disciples...
What also hurt was the snubs and ruthless practical jokes with which most of the club members liked to torment him. Zanuck, who has never lost the fervor for practical joking that he acquired as a constant victim of it, recalls that the pranks were "not always too pleasant, too nice...
Crew coach Tom Bolles, ever the pessimist, sang his pre-race blues with greater fervor than usual Thursday. Once again he lamented the damage that foul weather has done to his practice schedule. Princeton, on the other hand, works out in relatively balmy latitudes on an artificial lake, sheltered from winds...