Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been sufficiently occupied by the job of being my own keeper. To these add the noble ethics and the splendid tolerance expressed in reformed Judaism; the study of independence and the good business principles of the Mormons; the gentle humility and ordered humanity of the Quakers, plus the militant zeal and unselfish devotion of those shock troops of the Lord-the Salvation Army, who fight in the trenches of sin's no-man's land to reclaim the tortured souls and clothe the naked bodies of those whom the rest of a snobbish world forgot...
...surprised that TIME, with its zeal for factual. description, should have been so bamboozled...
...Louis Arthur Buie of the Mayo Clinic said that after draft officials got over being choosy and started sending along pilonidal cyst cases, "overconscientious" Army & Navy surgeons began operating on all cysts, even uninfected "dimples." Purpose: to remove the possibility of a cyst crisis at the front. This zeal put so many men to bed that an order came down saying in effect: "Do not do dimples...
Said St. Louis' Bishop John Calvin Broomfield: "Not since the palmy days of the great Christian Endeavor conventions have I witnessed such zeal, and such an outpouring of the people...
Dewey & the G.O.P. Many a citizen is still leary of Dewey-for reasons which range from A) a much-publicized theory that his zeal as prosecutor led him to disregard the fine points of civil liberties, to Z) a vague but widely-shared impression that he is a little too perfect to be true. Even among G.O.P. bigwigs, he still inspires some private resentment...