Word: zeal
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Ralph Nader is best known as the man who made Americans afraid of their cars; yet the scope of his crusading zeal extends far beyond defective mufflers and inadequate suspension systems. In a scant 18 months, he has piqued national concern over the side effects of medical X rays, the dangers inherent in leaky natural-gas pipelines, and the threat of damaging radiation from several models of color television sets. Last week Nader was a major force behind what Lyndon Johnson called "another victory for the American consumer...
...college organizers originally thought that they might attract about 20 students. By the time registration closed, 350 had signed up, ranging in age from 15 to 70, about one-third of them Negro. Neighborhood College teachers are impressed by the zeal and intelligence of their students. Historian Williams, who teaches the same course in Western civilization at the college that he gives at Cornell, finds that "the older housewives can write a literate essay-which is more than I can say for most Cornell freshmen...
...equal parts H. L. Mencken and Charles Maurras, add the crusading zeal of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, the wit of Fred Allen, the voice and presence of John Barrymore, the charisma of Bing Crosby, and you have the Caudillo of conservatism, William F. Buckley Jr. [Nov. 3]. Now if only the Conservatives could persuade him to seek the G.O.P. nomination for U.S. Senator next year or enter him in the lists against Javits or ex-Mayor Wagner, New Yorkers would have a choice instead of the traditional Tweedledum-Tweedledee Liberal shell game...
Yadin believes that the Temple Scroll was considered part of the Bible by Qumran. The parchment reinforces the scholarly conviction that the Qumran community consisted of ascetic, apocalyptically minded Jews who withdrew from the turmoil of Jerusalem to await the end of the world, and whose zeal to purify their faith in some sense foreshadowed that of Jesus and the early Christians...
They instead took down the names of some students they recognized. In considering disciplinary action later, those students were distinguished from protestors who handed in their bursar's cards but were not actually identified at the scene. That division--which depended on the zeal of individual House officers--bore only a casual relation to students' participation...