Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Champagne Campaign." So the contenders are out in droves. Eugene Nickerson, 47, chief executive of Nassau County, was the first to enter the race, in February. Samuels, 46, and Roosevelt, 51, joined him last week. Samuels, an articulate campaigner brimming with reformist zeal, is known as "the Baggie king," after one of the products of his plastic-packaging firm. Defeated in the 1962 convention scramble, he has a pretty wife, eight attractive children,* and no reluctance to use them as political assets. Samuels stretched his announcement into a swinging two-day foray by chartered plane to Washington...
...paign Conference for Democratic Women converged on Washington last week for their pre-election rah-rah session. Unsurpassed prosperity and the unmatched legislative record of the 89th Congress seemed the ideal sword and buckler for the combat ahead. "Go forth," enjoined Hubert Humphrey, "with almost a crusading zeal to talk about not only what we've done, but how we've done...
Matter of Conscience. The Index is a product of the Council of Trent's counter-reforming zeal to protect Catholics against Protestant error. The first Index was published in 1559; it gradually grew into an impressive reader's non-guide to literature that might endanger faith or morals. By the 18th century, it was something of a sign of excellence to be listed; among the condemned classics of the Index are Montaigne's Essays, Gibbon's Decline and Fall, and the works of Descartes, Hume, Hobbes and Voltaire...
...Negro lawyer is barred from judgeships, professorships, political appointments, big corporate firms and affluent clients. Even injured Negroes usually prefer white lawyers because they get more money from white juries. As a result, most important rights cases are directed by non-Southern lawyers, who for all their frequent zeal and skill, are often unfamiliar with the procedural obstacles thrown up by segregated justice...
...churches endorsed this particular strike with the same kind of zeal they gave to Selma? One reason, possibly, was guilt: until recently, the churches had largely ignored both the spiritual and material welfare of California's farm workers. Another reason, certainly, was the growing theological conviction of today's servant church that Christianity must take the lead in supporting secular causes that promote justice and equality...