Word: fervor
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...assembled a civilian suit from gift boxes, had let himself down some 60 ft. of Giraud-made rope. Posing as a Swiss traveling salesman, he had serpentined through Germany for eleven days, finally crossed into Switzerland. Unpublished reports at the time said that his escape and his anti-Nazi fervor were known to the British, who sent a plane to Switzerland for him, but that before it arrived he fled Switzerland for Vichy to escape Nazi pursuers. Vichy was afraid to turn him over to Germany because of his popularity among the French people. General Giraud was later said...
Herbert Agar is not afraid to deliver a sermon. A Time for Greatness is a 300-page editorial on democracy that has the fervor and some of the moral reach of the Old Testament prophets. Two quotations set the framework of Agar's thinking...
...topped off the meal with a batch of rousing Russian folk songs. Asked to reciprocate with some folk songs of their own, the British officers went into an embarrassed huddle. Only song they could think of was the Eton Boating Song, which they promptly boomed out with old school fervor. Impressed, the Russians asked to be taught the words and tune. Soon, weeping in their vodka, the sturdy Muscovites bellowed...
Bock, the Prussian, born in a Prussian fortress 61 years ago, required men to die for the Fatherland, for the glory of arms, for themselves ("Our profession should always be crowned by heroic death in battle"). Once he had commanded men to die for the Emperor. Now, with impersonal fervor, he said: "For the Führer." He expected them to die only when necessary, and then to die coldly ("The ideal soldier thinks only when ordered to do so"). His role was not to lead them into battle, or to die with them, but to see that they...
...painted sunclean, little nudes in airy land scapes, glowing dunes and beaches of health and optimism. From the painter of Germany's grim, Gothic, post-war Walpurgisnacht, George Grosz was converted in the U.S. to a German lyricist celebrating love and nature with the old-time fervor of a Franz Schubert. Now he confesses: "I had been too nervous, too vain, too ambitious, now I can sit in the dunes and feel humble and shy and say a little prayer...