Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York State prosecutor, Waite got interested in the case of a man condemned to death on the evidence of a phony ballistics expert. With the help of a New York City detective, Waite demonstrated that the prisoner was innocent and ballistics (as then practiced) was baloney. With admirable zeal, he set out to create a science from scratch. Be tween 1919 and 1923 he acquired data on almost every rifle, shotgun and side arm of recent manufacture, and simultaneously developed microscopic devices for examining gun barrels and comparing projectiles. Waite's methods were vindicated at the Sacco-Vanzetti trial...
Achilles' Heel. While such activities were not classifiably unAmerican, the Congressmen's well-documented attack on the Klan surprised many critics of the committee, which heretofore has focused its investigative zeal on left-wing groups. Its hostility to Klan witnesses was all the more noteworthy because the committee is dominated by Southerners and Republicans-seven of whom voted against House passage of the 1964 Civil Rights...
Nevertheless, as tangible evidence of the Klan's retaliatory zeal, the committee displayed a White Knights of Mississippi pamphlet that catalogues forms of harassment to be used on suspected foes. Among other tactics, it recommends pouring sugar into gasoline tanks, dumping snakes, dead rats or decapitated chickens into mailboxes. To "obscure the deadly seriousness of our work," the circular suggested, the Knights should refer to such ploys as "Halloween pranks"-enough, in Klan verbiage, to make any night Dark Day in Weird Week of Month Sorrowful...
...Opinions. Winship hotly refutes the contention that the Globe's zeal is due to anti-Kennedy feelings. "We've been damn good to the Kennedys," says he. "This was not an anti-Ted effort. I can't think of a thing we haven't supported him on except Morrissey." It was the Globe, to be sure, that first broke the story about Ted's expulsion from Harvard for cheating. But, as Winship points out, the story had full Kennedy cooperation, was printed only after the editor told one of J.F.K.'s presidential aides...
...same appetizing flavors may be found in Mr. Sloane, which comes to Broadway from London's West End. A tall blond young murderer takes lodgings with a middle-aged nymphomaniacal landlady. With lubricous zeal, she and her homosexual brother compete for the lodger's favors. When this impetuous tenant kills cranky old "Dadda," both brother and sister concoct a cover-up story about their father's murder and sign an agreement to share the killer's company...