Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shouting. Vichy insisted its troops would still fight from the hills. Even if they did, Britain had the big harbor, could clean them out later, although the island is more than twice as big as Great Britain. But few thought that the French on Madagascar would show very persistent zeal. If France had let the Jap have Indo-China, there was little point in dying to save Madagascar from the British...
...medal for "Interest and Zeal" will be given to Joseph M. Ambrose, while the Sons of the American Revolution Medal for excellence in the first year basic course will be received by Thomas V. Keene '45. Richard Ober '44 has won the medal offered by the same group for excellence in the second year course...
...first four notes), and will probably survive many more. The recent Columbia recording of the Fifth is the most satisfactory to date, Bruno Walter and the Vienna Philharmonic giving it a more intelligent and broadly conceived reading than that of the present Toscanini recording wherein the Maestro's excessive zeal transformed the first movement into a severe case of the jitters...
Wallace and Perkins had a hard time setting Washington afire. BEW's zeal for stockpiles was muffled in asbestos by Jesse Jones. Its zeal for mixing diplomacy and business was iced by the State Department. BEW had great plans to cut off oil from Spain, get useful chrome instead of useless gold from South Africa; the State Department cooled them off in a hurry...
Spring had come to the temperate zones, and to man's logistic zeal the northern pathways were almost as free as the all-year highways and alleys of the south Pacific. One foe, windblown by his dash, was catching his wind while his supplies came up. Another, fighting through the winter in the greatest battle of history, had dredged his high schools for new soldiers and scraped the bottom of factories and food stores for their supplies. In Easter week, while the United Nations sped over vast distances to meet them, they were about ready to strike...