Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those who know Adolf Busch, such musicianly zeal was no occasion for surprise. German by birth, Swiss by choice, sturdy, boyish Adolf Busch has long plied his art in the U.S., giving music performances that highlighted the music, not the performances. Busch prefers his music straight, as the composer wrote it, hence scorns transcriptions, distrusts editions, tries to ferret out original manuscripts whenever possible...
...Despite their zeal for world political, social and economic unity, the churchmen were less drastic when it came to themselves. They were frank enough to admit that their own lack of unity was no shining example to the secular world, but did no more than call for "a new era of interdenominational cooperation in which the claims of cooperative effort should be placed, so far as possible, before denominational prestige...
More than 200 Norwegians accompanied the raiders back to England, there to join the Royal Norwegian Government-in-Exile. Those remaining behind prepared stolidly for the reprisals sure to come-in their zeal to assist the visitors, the residents of one village had cut a German telegraph line in 35 places, had committed other appropriate forms of sabotage. Spreading throughout Norway was a growing conviction that Commando raids presage a mass British attempt to wrest from German hands the naval fortress of Narvik, and ultimately the whole of Norway...
Prime aim of Nazi education, Ziemer found, is to fire Germans with zeal to give up their lives for Adolf Hitler. A German boy takes his first solemn oath to die for the Führer at six, repeats...
...students still in College whose zeal can only be expressed by some kind of defense activity, Professor Casner has drawn up a list of civilian opportunities at Harvard, at the most important of which is the course in first aid sponsored by Phillips Brooks House...