Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that God's voice would speak out of the marsh more clearly than it had spoken out of the vineyard in Wiirttemberg - but be cause the land was fierce and cheap." Celibate Communists. Settling in Har mony, Pennsylvania, his harsh, puritanical doctrines and iron discipline turned the religious zeal of his "spiritual communists" to good account. Within a year his colony of 60 log cabins had become a thriving community with gristmill, barns, shops, houses of worship, sawmills, a tannery and a distillery. To keep his workers' energy channeled and profits limited, absolute celibacy was the rule...
Then in an excess of zeal, the Army's Second Service Command ruled that enlisted men could not even eat in New York restaurant-bars after midnight. Hotelmen and bar and night club operators began shutting up at 12 again, shuddering at the idea of trying to separate service men from liquor or food an hour before civilians went home...
...during World War I, last surviving member of the first Big Three (the others: Wood-row Wilson and France's Clemenceau); of complications following influenza; in Llan-ystumdwy, Wales. Through five reigns and three wars, the fiery, witty, flamboyant Welshman enlivened the House of Commons. A combination of zeal, oratory and energy pushed him, step by step, to leadership of the Liberal Party, the British Government, and finally the Empire...
Chaplain Dubois warned his church that it must mend its educational ways, for returning servicemen will have "little patience with half measures or compromises. . . . They will be ... men who have learned discipline and know sacrifice. To those who return, religion will be all or nothing. . . . [But] if [their] zeal and enthusiasm ... is properly directed, they will be the finest group of men the church has ever had as leaders...
...their perverted zeal to record all the trivialities of a good sized book on less than two hours of celluloid, a crew of incompetent scenarists neglected completely the compelling, warmly emotional drama of the situation and turned out an aimless documentary on horse raising...