Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unanimous Council vote to expel Russia, China's one vote alone would therefore block such action. Other nations with Council seats who are within gunshot of the Red Army were also likely to demur, notably Iran, Latvia and Turkey, to say nothing of the Scandinavian countries. Anti-Soviet zeal, in fact, could last week be directly gauged by the distance of nations from the Soviet border. British and French delegates, who generally stage-manage League proceedings, declared themselves ready to support expulsion provided other nations wanted...
This English doctor, now old and weary, still has the soul of a crusader. Not content with a job well done, he insists on pushing ahead with a fanatic zeal. Knowledge of this work has forced upon Vag an irrepressible desire to learn more about it. Partly for this reason, partly in tribute to a great leader, Vag is going to hear Sir Wilfred Grenfell speak this evening at eight o'clock in the large lecture room of the Fogg Museum...
...only when His Excellency unexpectedly announced that the grave political question of all-India federation, which virtually all shades of Indian opinion had opposed for different reasons, would be shelved for the duration of the war that the Indian members rose and cheered the Viceroy with such zeal that the Assembly's speaker had to hammer his desk thrice to restore order...
Chortled Mr. Churchill: "The Royal Navy ... is hunting them [U-boats] night and day, I will not say without mercy -because God forbid we should ever part company with that - but at any rate with zeal and not altogether without relish...
...bloody epic through plausible human (and inhuman) characters. Its hero, Sergei Kuskov, is human in his contradictions. He coolly plans the assassination of Tsarist generals and police, but is tormented by puritanical scruples in his love affairs. A deadly foe of Tsarism, he nevertheless wins a medal for his zeal as a railroad construction boss, becomes a patriot in the War, gets to believe in democracy only after intellectual torment...