Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other students, are ready to serve in the military once their education is completed. They cannot be more dangerous security risks then. If anything, another year at the Law School may, as hoped in the Faculty statement, clear some of the fuzziness from their thinking. Professor Leach's zeal to have the Lubells drafted, then, would certainly not benefit the army, the Lubells, or the draft system...
...Call-Bulletin put on its new dress all at once, just as the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Portland Oregon Journal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Houston Post and scores of others had done after Typographer Farrar redesigned them. Farrar, whose clients often call him "the Deacon" because of his evangelical zeal for tidy typography (i.e., his own), bases all his prizewinning designs on a simple theory: "There are more eyes among readers than intellects...
...this way, the Houses clung to their passivity, the sometime-abortive zeal of a useless competition to recruit would...
...guest house roof watching the Trappists (Father Merton included) "employing energies in direct relation to the needs of the hour," the needs being to harvest a crop of tomatoes. These monks, who would put any union-scale group of laborers (or choir Benedictines) to shame with the zeal of their manual labor, would certainly be startled to hear that to become Trappists they had first to be members of an elite...
...Bertrand Russell . . . was small, dark, brisk, with a lively air and a hyena laugh. According to some people he was the ugliest man they had ever seen ... He had birth, genius, learning, indefatigable zeal and energy, brilliant intelligence and absolute honesty and courage ... Yet on the whole, relative to his capacities, he was a failure. He petered...