Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wanted to be a fighter pilot. It's more than a job; it's a sport." Having won his wings, the ace strove to test his plane and himself, flying faster and higher than was ordered, often bewildering fellow pilots by his single-minded zeal. He repeatedly badgered his superiors to send him to Korea. Once there, he looked for extra tours of duty, unlike his comrades had little fear of being killed in combat. A mission was a personal challenge. Functioning best when allowed some leeway from standard procedure, the ace often spotted MIGs long before...
Although one of the worst offenders against simplicity, Counsel Ray Jenkins shows the most consistent desire to save time. This zeal has led him to coin several interesting contractions that, thanks to the witnesses' equally devious minds, have so far caused no confusion. Jenkins likes to say "Did or not in happen that..." in lieu of the more unwieldy, if equally ungainly, "Did it or did it not happen that..." Extending the principle to derive other equally ugly shortcut, Jenkins frequently uses "Was or not it..." and "Will or not you say that...
...Edinburgh he took lodgings with two other Americans, and impressed them with his Spartan indifference to the deficiencies of Scottish heating, his zeal for theology, and his scrupulousness about accounting for every groat he spent from the trust fund in Philadelphia on which he was drawing...
...undoubtedly this very enthusiasm as a conductor which inspired Davison's book "Choral Conducting" which appeared in 1940. "Zeal for fine music," wrote Davison, "depends not at all upon education, musical or otherwise. It grows out of an experience of the satisfaction that springs only from the association with the highest manifestations of musical...
...overzealous amateur "untrained in the use of proper investigative techniques, may constitute a serious menace to civil rights . . . . Patriotism and zeal cannot compensate for a lack of detailed, technical knowledge . . . . The work of the vigilante too often deserves the label "Witch Hunt"; the work of the fifth columnist needs no label. Let us beware of both." J. EDGAR HOOVER...