Word: fervor
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...World Order (TIME, Nov. 22) closed last week, even the optimistic Council of Bishops, which led the campaign, was pleasantly surprised. For four weeks 23 teams of bishops, ministers, laymen, lay women, crisscrossed the U.S., held one-day meetings in 76 cities. Everywhere Methodists turned out with traditional fervor, prayed, sang hymns, heard addresses, climaxed the day by sending servicemen post cards with Howard Chandler Christy's picture The Prince of Peace. Total attendance at the rallies...
...Martin in 1925 to be Donald Douglas' chief engineer in Santa Monica. In 1934 General Motors picked Dutch to manage and expand its North American Aviation. But while Donald Douglas held back against the inevitable expansion of U.S. aircraft production (TIME, Nov. 22), Dutch pushed it with characteristic fervor (he had taken a 1938 European trip and had seen the Nazis...
...Cubans' ball-handling was about the slickest ever seen in Manhattan's packed and cheering Madison Square Garden. Basketbol shares Cuban sporting fervor with beisbol and boxeo. The season lasts seven months on outdoor, wooden courts. It took Havana's team only ten minutes to get their indoor bearings. From then on split-vision faking and passing kept them always in the lead. The "Caballeros of the Caribbean" go home after two more games: with Canisius at Buffalo early this week, and with Temple at Philadelphia on New Year...
...week: "I taught him how to groove, how to make it sweet-the strong bass he had dates from that time. He stuck pretty well to my pattern-developed a lovely singing tone, a lyric, melodic expression, and then too, him being the son of a preacher, he had fervor...
...With a fervor unmatched since the days of the Old Testament prophets, he went further and insisted that if his vision were followed it would bring victory, and with victory an end of human unhappiness when "all these hearts as of fretted chil dren shall be sooth'd."; The vision began to take form at the meeting point of life & death. The hospitals were halls of agony. Walking through them, visitors fainted. The men who had beaten back Pickett at Gettysburg and been burned when the caissons exploded at Chancellorsville here faced a more deadly menace than rebel marksmen...