Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...match to the most inflammable of the placards, and then fled the scene while the blaze envelopped the board and charred the entry. Most violent reaction to this bit of sabotage came from the proctor, Frank "the fruit" Newman '42, who quite violently and properly resented the flaming zeal with which they were pressing revenge...
Bernard Law Montgomery is an abstemious, godly and implacable man. With the zeal of the godly he went to work. Hour after hour, for twelve days, his Eighth Army had surged against every foot of Rommel's defense, pummeling the Axis Army with artillery and aircraft, clawing a way forward through barbed wire, minefield and booby trap...
Excessive zeal is paramount to successful candidates. Clad in white ducks, sweatshirts, and sneakers, they must run to and from all assignments, never sit down, and always wear an interested look...
...after the necessary funds, with the help of Our Sunday Visitor, which he founded in 1912 while a parish priest, and which now boasts the biggest circulation (510,000) of any Catholic paper in the world. His loyal readers chipped in $125,000 for the statue, with the same zeal they showed in backing Bishop Noll in drives against movie and magazine indecency. Next the Bishop discovered that sites for new statues in Washington are as rare as seats in a Washington restaurant. The few statueless sites are mostly public property...
...Pupil. When Billy Mitchell died, the air-power revolution lost its one great leader. There were plenty of airmen who agreed with him, and most of them were in the Army Air Corps. But there was none so gifted with the combination of impressive rank, burning partisan zeal and disregard of military convention as the man who had written: "The day has passed when armies on the ground or navies on the sea can be the arbiters of a nation's destiny...