Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scratch. Goldwyn has never pinched his moviemaking pennies in his zeal for what he calls "quality." Guys and Dolls, with Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Jean Simmons, Vivian Elaine and 16 Goldwyn Girls, is budgeted at $5,500,000. Goldwyn paid $1,000,000 merely for the screen rights to the Broadway musical and that, as a Goldwyn hireling put it in Runyonese, "is a lot of scratch." It is probably the highest price ever paid for a single film property...
...last, with spring, comes the call to action. Garcet takes the long jeep ride into combat, full of zeal and professional hopes ("Promotions do not come to young lieutenants promenading on the Champs Elysées"). He soon learns that he is the New Boy at the Old School; his fellow officers reminisce about when the war was really tough; his hard-bitten platoon promptly dubs him "Battling Baby-Face...
...conclusion, if by chance this great architectural advance, seeking perfection in roundness (this being the closest architecture can presently come to the perfect sphere), does not inspire the students with religious zeal, it may yet, by its very strangeness of form, further their engineering interests and drive them to design even "bigger and better" chapels of worship. Nan Barkin--Radcliffe...
...first time in three years well enough to deliver his traditional Lenten address in person, Pope Pius XII, 79, read a 20-minute allocution to 1,000 of Rome's parish priests, Lenten preachers and lay members of Catholic Action. Warning against disunity, impatience and excessive zeal in bringing lost and wavering souls back into the church, he urged them to "push souls gently but firmly towards Jesus." Later in the week the Pope showed his continued strength by participating in a 90-minute ceremony celebrating the 16th anniversary of his accession to the papal throne...
...sure of having it later on. There is no need of explaining why such practices as these are disgraceful. Inasmuch, however, as some students are not acute enough to see it, it is well to explain to then that no gentleman is carried away so far by zeal for industry as to use these methods of pursuing his studies. The Harvard CRIMSON, March...