Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father's disgrace, restored his family lands, given him a splendid palace. They had given him lucrative Army contracts for wood. When El Mahdi Pasha promised his followers a square meter in Heaven for every meter of lumber they felled, fanatic Sudanese woodsmen chopped trees with as much zeal as if they had been infidel heads...
...Chicago's Auxiliary Bishop Sheil: "Of all the priests I know, Abbot Ondrak has been most generous and most eager in his response to the Church's wish for priests who, in the words of Pope Pius XI, dedicate the better part of their endeavors and their zeal to winning back the laboring masses to Christ and to His Church. He has battled against economic injustices. . . . He has . . . battled . . . against unemployment, insecurity, disease and crime. . . . Because of him, and men like him, no one can say that the [Roman] Catholic Church is irrelevant today...
...official circles. . . . Playwrights . . . and some theater directors . . . who only a few years ago were constantly badgered ... for either libeling Soviet life or indulging in hothouse estheticism, have lately been awarded the highest honors." On this encouraging (but no longer valid) premise, he concludes: "Perhaps some day the present zeal for using the theater as a means for visual demonstration of copybook maxims (Soviet version) will pass...
...spark-plugged by General Marshall himself, and the men who ran the show in the Pentagon were of topflight ability. The I & E School at Washington and Lee University had the reputation of being one of the finest in the Army. I can vouch for the efficiency and evangelistic zeal of its faculty; for a month I was impressed with the importance of my military mission and imbued with a love for my fellow-soldiers. When I was handed my diploma, I was all set to go out into the world to teach my bunkmates the 'facts of life...
...China emerges from the maelstrom. Taken in by slick Chungking double-talk of a new freedom for China, the United States has actively supported the Kuomintang government not only in hopes of destroying feudalism in China, but also of checking the spread of Communist influence in Asia. In its zeal, however, to boost China into the twentieth century, the United States has mislaid the basic principles of democracy and stands open to the charge of using the Chinese people as pawns in a game of power politics...