Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thoroughout most of the City the move is being met with zeal. But there are a few hold out areas...
...nightclub slayer Eugene Weidmann was accompanied by such a burst of newsmen's flashbulbs and sob sisters' ink that public executions were barred thenceforth. Once he was arrested on suspicion of being a German paratrooper when his portable guillotine got lost. Thanks to the occupying Germans' zeal for capital punishment, however, he managed to pile up a post-Sanson record of 316 beheadings during his career...
...administrator, a prominent citizen of the Jewish community, Finkelstein was bound to come to grips with Zionism. As a student, he had been attracted by it. But as he grew older, and the political preoccupations of the movement became clearer to him, his zeal for the establishment of a Jewish state began to cool...
Black & White Justice. Cases of assaults by white police on black prisoners are numerous. There have also been cases of torture. In one recent case in which the victim died, the policeman responsible was told he had shown "too much zeal." White murderers (except for poisoners) are seldom hanged. A man who shot another in cold blood and then tried to burn the body got four years. But a Negro who stole some cows got eleven years' hard labor. This month, seven white youths who beat an old Negro to death (because a friend of the Negro...
Archbishop Mathew's point seems to be that his characters are without love for their fellows because they are without love for God. In his zeal, he also seems to be saying that love can express itself-in Africa, at least-only through Catholicism. As a novel, The Mango on the Mango Tree becomes a highly literate parable loaded with blunt proselytism...