Word: fervor
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Hitler snuggled as snugly as he could into his cloak of proletarian fervor. He contrasted himself again & again, the protector of the poor, with plutocratic foes. Lest Germans be disturbed, however, by thoughts that the Russians are also convinced proletarians of long standing, the country was plastered with posters showing German soldiers suffering from "Communistic dirt, filth, lice, disorganization, lack of most essential commodities...
...tragedy of Erna Schmidt is the tragedy of all decent men and women, "the little people," who are blamed for the maniacal deeds of their rulers. The girls, in their patriotic fervor, try to focus all their unresolved thinking, all their unresolved thinking, all their hatred of Germany, upon her, trying to create of her an image of the Nazi regime...
...study for the Congregational ministry, was promptly fired from his first pulpit for preaching a sermon on "Silly fools, stupid fools and damned fools" which his hearers considered much too personal. Converted to Catholicism four years later, he now writes with the full fervor of the oath he took on abandoning Protestantism to "detest and abjure every error, heresy and sect opposed to the said Holy Catholic and Apostolic Roman Church...
Worried last week was the venerable, stoop-shouldered Bishop of Winchester by the British public's "strange complacency" in the face of blackout road accidents-18,000 deaths since the war began. With high moral fervor, but not too much logic, the Bishop demanded "whether the continued spectacle of suffering may not be dimming the compassion which normally we feel." Whether or not British compassion was dimming, within eight London days...
short-wave newscasters go in the direction of "counter propaganda." NBC's staff of 65 smart writers, producers and linguists has been working for democracy long enough to feel with fervor that the blunt American truth is the best antidote to Goebbelsian innuendo. Of the latter, they know through their correspondence (e.g. 1,170 European, 4,524 South American, 4,908 Central American letters so far this year) their listeners are sick & tired...