Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hygrade was a pioneer in selling pre-packaged meats through delicatessens. Slotkin also pushed processed, ready-to-eat meats, today the main pillar of Hygrade's business. In his zeal to spread such time-saving benefits to every housewife, Slotkin was hampered by Hygrade's lack of outlets west of Chicago. Thus when Kingan's management split hopelessly over operating policies (TIME, March 3, 1952), he spotted a bargain. A year ago, Kingan's owners were glad to take Hygrade's offer of $6,500,000 for 94.1% of Kingan's stock...
...balance all the admitted evils of a sales tax seem less than those of the probable alternatives of again boosting income and corporate taxes. At least, a federal sales tax would make all citizens conscious of the cost of Government, and by so doing, increase by that much their zeal to keep it down...
...turn of the 20th century. One walk through the squalid streets of Bombay was enough to convince him that the Indian way of life was no better than living death. India, he decided, needed the sort of inspiration that had made him and his country great: the go-getting zeal of the American way. His wife had been a devout Christian, so what better memorial ould he build than a gigantic missionary foundation devoted to the raising and training of businesslike Christian-Indian leaders...
...province. But her theme is even wider than her scheme-so wide, in act, that better novelists would find it hard to cover. Intricate and twofold, it ries on the one hand to show the great gap that divides American and Indian understanding and, on the other, how religious zeal and hard experience affect not only this gap, but the Americans and Indians who try to bridge...
...spoke with the intimate second-person "tu" a reminder of the days they spent together as wartime anti-Fascist refugees in the Vatican. Of course, said Nenni, he did not expect De Gasperi to denounce the North Atlantic pact, but was it necessary to show such "excessive zeal" in promoting it? De Gasperi asked if Nenni's Socialists are really as independent of Togliatti's Reds as they profess. Replied Nenni frankly: if the Communists were to take power in Italy, the Socialists would "regard it serenely...