Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...member of this committee and I want you men to give me this rule just because it's me." They gave him enough votes, and at last the bill was sent to the House. There Hatton Sumners made a final, vitriolic attack on it. With unfading zeal Mr. Dempsey stuck to his guns. The bill passed, 243-to-122. At week's end the Senate concurred, without debate. The final bill as approved by both Houses limited expenditure by a political party to $3,000,000 in a single year, limited single campaign contributions to, $5,000, prohibited...
...Lindbergh may not be exactly right in everything, but in this section of the country it is believed that those who are falling over themselves in their zeal to criticize him are either selfishly inspired or victims of impractical "idealism" and propaganda. We believe that a policy which results in extending war to the whole world will not save Democracy but destroy it forever...
...intellectual would of course have to be ... an opponent and disavower of revolutions; he of all people knows how slowly all changes of lasting significance are accomplished, . . . how inconspicuous they are and, through their very slowness, almost imperceptible, and how Nature, in her constructive zeal, hardly anywhere lets intellectual forces come to the fore...
...Even in those days," declared Mr. Suma, "I felt Mr. Wang's patriotic ardor, his zeal to construct a rejuvenated China. You know, he is quite a drinker, although you wouldn't take him for one. He could take it all right. I think it was in the summer of 1931, when he established a National Government in Canton against Chiang Kaishek, [that] I presented him with a cask of Akita sake (rice wine) from my native province and we drank together one night at his house in Tung-shan [suburb of Canton]. He drank sake, cold, from...
Inspired as never before, the press screamed in flaming red headlines: "The disorder ... of more than three centuries will be revised. . . . An outworn era is crumbling to dust beneath the marching feet of the German Army!" Pregnant with crusading zeal, Nazi Ideologist Alfred Rosenberg proclaimed: "Germany has become the protector of the endangered and oppressed continent. It is fighting against an unholy division of the old and venerable European continent into dozens of pigmy States. National Socialist Germany, the heart of Central Europe, enters upon its historic rights...