Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After his inauguration last month, Governor Aloé quickly found his tongue in public. Vociferously he cried that he will not tolerate any sub-bureaucrat "who does not think as the governor thinks." He especially concentrated his conformist zeal on the brainwashing of schoolchildren...
...priests, says Don Ardito. "Compromise, moderation, restrained zeal, a constant effort to be 'human' and please the general public, all these mixed in with personal greed and jealousy-isn't that the portrait of the average priest? . . . How many of us priests ... act as if the truth we preach were a spiritual reality, not a mere symbol...
...Fined 30,000 Cantonese firms and confiscated 600 factories for failure to pay up. But the bosses agreed that some mistakes had been made. In their zeal to get at the helpless tigers, said the Peking People's Daily, party members had classified too many merchants as "half law-abiding," when they were entitled to a higher rating, to wit, "essentially law-abiding." South China's railroad system had broken down when the tiger hunters sacked its entire staff. So many businesses had been ruined that "trade outlets had lapsed into inactivity...
...zeal of Jones Father & Son spreads to most of their students. All classes begin with prayers. Students argue about Bible texts as other collegians talk about sport, politics and sex. At Sunday worship and the weekday chapel services, students steep themselves in "the oldtime religion"-the intimate spiritual question, the gospel hymn, the inspirational prayer...
Citation: "Concerned de rerum atque homini natura, you compel attention to the dynamic of the destructible atom on the one hand, and of the indestructible human spirit on the other. Owing allegiance to the truth . . . you have dedicated yourself as citizen, with almost Calvinistic zeal, to testing the American-and revolutionary-proposition that all men are created equal...