Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year in a row, took the team title for Villanova by just 2⅓ points over Manhattan. ¶Going down the stretch in a wild scramble to win Hialeah's $135,000 Flamingo Stakes, Jockey Manuel Ycaza whipped at his bay mount. Jewel's Reward, with understandable zeal. But Jewel's Reward flinched from the lefthanded slashing, carried wide and collided with Calumet's fast-closing Tim Tarn. And when Tim Tam, with Champion Willie Hartack aboard, was nosed out at the wire, Willie lodged a protest. He did not have to. The stewards were already...
...doubt that any of the other coaches could have done what Talbot has done," says one of Talbot's colleagues. "We shot our bolts producing an Olympic swimming team. Talbot was a nobody in those days. So he put all his enthusiasm and zeal into making champions of the Konradses. Now it's Talbot's turn for glory...
...population. More than any other white leader in the Central African Federation (the united British territories of Southern and Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland), Todd fought to advance the rights of black men. He tried to give the vote to more Africans, to increase Africans' wages. But in his zeal for racial "partnership," Garfield Todd, longtime Churches of Christ (Disciples) missionary, gradually antagonized more and more of Southern Rhodesia's 175,800 whites. Last month his own Cabinet resigned in protest and demanded that Todd himself quit (TIME, Jan. 27). Africans warned it would...
...bachelor farmer and former Finance Minister with an IBM-like memory, Whitehead was hailed by the party's moderates as a sounder man, whose advocacy of racial partnership was hard-headedly based on economic necessity rather than evangelizing zeal. The Africans were not reassured. Declared George Nyandoro, secretary-general of the African National Congress in Southern Rhodesia: "Whitehead is a status quo man. A government led by Whitehead would only make concessions when concessions were forced upon it. The Africans will have to do the forcing...
Missionary zeal once beat strong in Judaism; the Pharisees, said Jesus, would "compass sea and land to make one proselyte" (Matthew 23:15). This proselytizing urge vanished in the Diaspora, but the time may have come to compass land and sea again. So thinks Robert Gordis, professor of Bible at Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary and of religion at Columbia University...