Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Each faction has had its own interests to defend. Rockefeller, facing a rough third-term campaign, cast himself disingenuously in the role of "honest broker," infuriating Lindsay by his lack of direct support. Lindsay's reformist zeal, in turn, only alienated upstate legislators, who instinctively recoiled from the prospect of taxing commuters in order, as they saw it, to finance the city's sacrosanct, heavily subsidized 150 transit fare. The wrangling forced two extensions in the city's deadline for enacting its 1966-67 budget; the second expired last week...
...cult still has expansive holdings, but it long ago misplaced both its proselytizing and promotional zeal. The House of David's barnstorming baseball team, its most renowned attraction for 25 years, was disbanded back in 1937. Also gone are Chic Bell's bearded touring musicians. The colony's picturesque Benton Harbor amusement park once attracted 200,000 visitors a year, now draws fewer than 30,000. So depleted are the ranks that outsiders have to be hired to operate the shabby House of David Hotel in downtown Benton Harbor. Sighs pigtailed Tom Dewhirst, 58, head...
Lesser men would have been chastened by the military's zeal against corruption. Not Adhemar. While revolutionary tribunals zeroed in on the in discretions of Leftist Goulart and his allies, the Governor blithely launched an all-out kickback campaign that local businessmen defined wryly as "the golden era of the little tin box." Few new enterprises could get started without cutting Adhemar in, and established concerns were often hit for "contributions" to Adhemar-invented causes. An $18 million school-construction contract was mysteriously awarded without public bids...
...Series. Shapp's reformist zeal led to the derisive nickname of "Batman"-but many voters thought a crusader, caped or not, was just what Pennsylvania's tired Democratic Party needed. With the returns in, Democratic Senator Joseph Clark, who had backed Casey, admitted that the machine was "obsolescent, if not obsolete." Shapp, the first Jew to be nominated for Governor of Pennsylvania, was already gearing up for November. "We've won the pennant," he told supporters. "Now we go after the World Series...
...possessed "a capacity for violent action," which may have been aroused by Sylvia's calling her daughter Stephanie, 15, a whore. As for the child sadists, it seemed that Mrs. Baniszewski's blood lust had infected them, and that Sylvia's passivity only whetted their murderous zeal...