Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...darkness and confusion, policemen used their nightsticks with great zeal, clubbing and injuring about 60 people. Seventeen of them were newsmen--there trying to cover it--including a CBS cameraman . . . an NBC cameraman and NBC News reporter John Evans...
Clark repeatedly implored the audience of 300 to help convince the public of the validity of the Court's controversial decisions. "The Court can't enforce morals or mores," he said. "It will take soul-searching and crusading by good people like you." He praised youth's idealism, zeal, and dedication, and said, "With this new generation, we've really improved upon ourselves...
Cultural Historian Barzun is a traditionalist who feels that "the university is an institution transcending time and geography." He is distressed because too many academic institutions have become too involved with contemporary problems, too influenced by a misguided zeal for community service. The trouble, Barzun says, can be traced to a "great shift to research after 1945." One inevitable result has been the student riots, the worst of which occurred at Columbia soon after Barzun completed his manuscripts. He is noticeably cool to student rioters, although he sympathizes with some of their protests. So many professors are busy with activities...
...Nixon's main objectives is to keep the economy on a forward course while reducing the disturbing rate of inflation-currently more than 4% a year-to about 2.5%. That, in turn, would go a long way toward strengthening the position of the dollar abroad. Yet excessive zeal in combating inflation could throw the nation's economy into reverse. The new Administration, says Yale Economist Henry Wallich, a onetime economic adviser to President Eisenhower, will find that it must perform a delicate balancing act "between policies that would bring on a recession and ones that would continue inflation...
...projects in Siberia and the Soviet Far East. Komsomoltsy helped build the Bratsk hydroelectric station, are now participating in the construction of the Togliatti auto plant, which is scheduled to produce 600,000 Soviet versions of the Italian Fiat a year. Some of the youngsters go out of ideological zeal, some simply for the adventure of getting away from home. But for most, subtle and highly persuasive pressures are at work, primarily choice job assignments after graduation that can be allotted in part according to a Komsomol pl record. Still others invest a summer | in Siberia in the hope...