Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same way. Nurses were dirty, drunken, promiscuous. Florence Nightingale would change all that as she was to change many things. British army privates in their fetid barracks, smug bureaucrats in the musty War Office, viceroys in palaces were all to feel the reach of her will and missionary zeal...
...other comic characters are all foils to Falstaff, and many, are treated as caricatures rather than as characterizations. Bardolph, whose "zeal burns in his nose," and Doll Tearsheet, "as common as the way between St. Alban's and London," both get inspired treatment. The other comic characters join vigorously in the numerous brawls, and seem to get a good deal...
...Snyder, who had lost last summer's battle, announced that he had won the war. He had won the President's approval to keep the long-term rate where it is (2½%), because the U.S. cannot afford the "questionable luxury of tinkering with [it]." In his zeal to keep down the cost of financing the $257 billion national debt, Snyder overlooked the fact that the inflationary rise in prices has more than canceled out any savings that resulted from the low rate...
Last week, with the promised pay. increases, an extra week's vacation (to start in 1952) and a new pension scheme under their belts, Britain's miners set out to redeem their pledge. To give them added zeal, every miner in the country got a letter starting "Dear Friend," printed in a reproduction of the Prime Minister's handwriting. The letter said: "The nation looks to you; I am sure you will not fail . . ." It was signed "C. R. Attlee...
Stabilizer Valentine, whose zeal for mandatory controls had caused him to freeze auto prices over DiSalle's objections, now objected to DiSalle's plan. He said it would be impossible to enforce, with ESA's small staff. DiSalle and Valentine passed the argument to Charlie Wilson for a ruling. Sighed DiSalle: "I've been working so hard I don't know if I have any manhood left...