Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their zeal to dredge up the facts about bookmaking in Florida, the Senate's committee investigating gambling last week chatted with J. Myer Schine, a stolid, sharply dressed man of affairs, whose necklace of eight hotels and about 135 movie theaters includes a beach-front palace in Atlantic City, and the cheaply expensive Roney Plaza in Miami Beach...
...medical schools, in their zeal for technical skills, failing to turn out well-rounded doctors? The question was raised last week by Dr. Willara Cole Rappleye, dean of Columbia University's Faculty of Medicine. Said Dr. Rappleye...
...Peace?" Petition collectors, who had experienced a moment's dismay, swarmed over the U.S. with renewed zeal. The document they flourished was whomped up at a meeting of a Communist-sponsored something called the "World Committee of Peace Partisans" in Stockholm last March. Innocently worded, it simply condemned atomic bombing as aggression; it did not mention other kinds of aggression-like the Korean. At ballparks, in subways and factories, on street corners, the partisans solicited signatures. "Who isn't for peace? I'll sign," was the reaction of the guileless, the dupes, the muddled. Day after...
...days later the faculty made its feelings on the question of loyalty known during a three-hour closed meeting of the Academic Senate--the governing body of all faculty members with tenure. The 500 professors said they had no objection to declaring their "loyalty and zeal," but voted a resolution urging the Regents to eliminate or change the loyalty oath. President Sproul told the meeting that he would be glad to work with a faculty committee on suggesting changes to the next meeting of the Regents...
...Saturday morning court session (court almost never sits on Saturday morning). It was a strange hearing. Jaffe's lawyer, Albert Arent, did most of the talking. He explained to Federal Judge James Proctor that Jaffe, who was pleading guilty, had merely acted from "an excess of journalistic zeal." Hitchcock, for the Government, hastened to agree that this "in substance" was the fact. The judge asked for a probation report on Jaffe. Hitchcock blandly told the judge, in effect, he thought such a report was more trouble than it was worth. Then the court fined Jaffe $2,500, which...