Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate, the resolution got caught in a whirlpool of Democratic emotions: partisan zeal, dislike and distrust of Secretary of State Dulles, disillusionment with foreign aid, rankling anger at the Republicans for using the "peace" issue in last year's campaign. For fully a month, despite Ike's call for speed, Senate Democrats nitpicked their way through the resolution, pausing for rhetoric, savoring revenge as they harpooned Dulles at every opportunity (TIME, Jan. 28 et seq.). By last week, when the joint committee sat down to draft its version, the Democrats had made themselves look irresponsibly partisan. Then earnest...
...With Zeal & Energy. Wallenberg went. He arrived in Budapest listed officially as third secretary of the Swedish legation, his luggage bulging with information on Hungarian underground agents and secretly pro-Allied officials of the Hungarian government. Operating with enormous zeal and energy, he persuaded Hungarian officials that if a Jew claimed neutral citizenship he should not be deported until the truth of his claim had been established. This done, he promptly affixed to the homes of some 20,000 such Jews signs that read: "Under the Protection of the Swedish Legation." He rented 32 houses in Budapest in the name...
...years Father Lombardi, 48, has been a kind of Roman Catholic Billy Graham, firing hearers all over Italy with new zeal. But Father Lombardi believes that the enthusiasm in the crowds he left behind will not last without continuing leadership. To provide that leadership, he set up a new organization: Per un Mondo Migliore (For a Better World...
...started out as a reporter for the Star in 1912, was named city editor one year later. In 1933 Hindmarsh (who married Publisher Joseph Atkinson's daughter in 1915) became vice president in charge of the editorial departments, fully earned his job with his driving energy, his legendary zeal for pumping money and manpower into a good story, his ruthless discipline of staffers who failed to meet his exacting standards. Ernest Hemingway, Pierre van Paassen and many other famed authors worked as young reporters on his ever-changing staff in the years when Hindmarsh was turning the struggling Star...
...mere whim nor proselytizing zeal which prodded the station into FM, however. Based on hard facts, the decision was made by the station's executives only when they became convinced that WHRB could best fulfill its purposes by serving considerably more people than those in the Harvard community...