Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reactionary extremists attack American unions as unnecessary or greedy-and hope to climb to wealth on their broken backs." Instead, Eisenhower pledged "a government that would give fair and just hearing to all labor's needs and problems." Communism & McCarthyism. "The first [extreme] attacks the danger with a zeal that takes no account of our civil liberties. It wounds the innocent as well as the guilty. It is a parody of righteous justice. That extreme I have firmly and explicitly renounced . . . The opposite extreme, is no less repugnant to me. [It] talks in the slick vocabulary...
Stevenson has none of the strident partisanship, the rigid thinking, or the banality toward maladministration shown by the current president, nor is he a chronic addict of the Big Oversimplification. His career as well as his speeches have injected into politics a zeal for intellectual exertion and a faith in the electorate's judgement which, no matter how justified or successful, has made this campaign the most constructive in years...
...Moore's missionary zeal has taken him to Edinburgh as a visiting professor and to Korea as consultant on problems which Army surgeons are trying to work out close behind the front. He is already looking eagerly at the next great, unexplored territory: the influence of psychological factors on surgical patients, e.g., what are the differences in response between patients operated on after long illnesses and those who have suffered sudden injury? Wha difference does it make if a soldier is wounded as soon as he goes into combat, or after long months of action and exhaustion...
...embassy announced that Moravia's visa had been denied because of a State Department ruling that he cannot qualify under the U.S. Internal Security (McCarran) Act. This action was part of the Administration's campaign to sabotage the act by administering it with ridiculous mock zeal...
Corruption & Bombs. The baldpated, 38-year-old brothers are united by more than their zeal for reform. They are not only lookalikes, but they smoke the same cigarettes, are married and each has one daughter, drive the same make & model car, and write and think alike so much that one can start a story which the other can finish without ever missing a phrase. "If we don't check with each other-beforehand," says Mustafa, "we find ourselves writing two editorials on the same event with only minor differences in wording...