Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...battles on behalf of the over worked, the overcrowded and the under paid in the lusty turmoil of the Indus trial Revolution have now been won in the sooty cities of the Midlands, on the docksides of the Tyne and in the slag-heaped valleys of Wales. And Methodist zeal for social betterment is left with such low-calorie crusades as temperance, the discouragement of gambling and the abolition of vulgar postcards from sea side shops...
...change in the U.S. They believe that the U.S. may be giving up its hope of finding some positive way of rolling back Communism, and is reconciling itself to uneasy, competitive, but peaceful coexistence with the Soviet bloc. Economically this means, Britons suspect, that the U.S.'s missionary zeal for transforming the world into its own free-enterprising image might have beaten itself out on the rocks of Europe's economic nationalism, leaving a feeling that other people's subsidies, economic preferences and restrictions are facts of economic life which the U.S. will have to accept...
...building a house-planning and building "the foundation for our forthcoming legislative program." The result: "It is a program that does not deal in pie-in-the-sky promises to all, nor in bribes to a few, nor in threats to any. It is a program inspired by zeal for the common good, dedicated to the welfare of every American family-whatever its means of livelihood may be, or its social position, or its ancestral strain, or its religious affiliation...
...destroy personal freedom by annihilating privacy. This whole field of technological surveillance needs legislative attention. The Government cannot be given unlimited power to peep and pry. "The greatest dangers to liberty," wrote Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis with reference to wiretapping, "lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal." But the Government does need some power to balance the criminal's new advantages, especially the advantages to conspiracy against the national security...
...series of Harvard nights at downtown theatres. In 1904 the Boston Transcripts could well say, "There is not a University in America in which a numerically appreciable and notably intelligent and finely strung body of students cultivates the arts of the theatre with the eager and usually discriminating zeal of the Harvard students...