Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knew until quite recently of departures from the Service's prescribed policies," he told Missouri Democrat Edward V. Long, chairman of a Senate Judiciary subcommittee investigating federal encroachments on citizens' privacy. Cohen promised to right any injustices, then said of his agents: "While we must temper their zeal with controlled judgment, we cannot categorically deprive them of tools and training with legitimate, exemplary uses...
Watching the Sunbather. Last week, as the Long subcommittee continued its hearings, it became clear that since 1961, when Attorney General Robert Kennedy launched his great federal anti-crime drive, some IRS men had operated with untempered zeal-and had certainly not lacked tools for poking into peoples' private affairs...
...minimum cooperation. The Department men compound this by blunder after blunder. Leiser himself, who at 40 is really too old for the business, is only too pathetically eager to savor again the exhilaration he felt as a British agent during the war. There is something almost perverse about his zeal for the mission. And his skills are so rusty that East German security men, locking onto his radio transmissions, are mystified by what they think, at first, must be the handiwork of an amateur...
Exile & Consolation. With a passion equally ferocious, Dante hurled himself into politics. By 1300, thanks to his partisan zeal and forensic brilliance, he was one of the six principal executives of Florence; but in 1301 he met with a political disaster. The French marched on Florence and established Dante's enemies in power. Condemned in absentia to death by burning, Dante for the last 20 years of his life wandered in exile from the "bella citta" he loved. Most of his political colleagues sooner or later won remission of exile, but Dante proudly refused to compromise his principles...
...pretty much the same thing. The publishers need desperately to cut production costs through automation. But they are bedeviled by a powerful, medieval-minded printers' union local whose attitude towards automation ranks roughly with the intellectual attainments of a mystery cult. Last week the union, in its misguided zeal, very nearly ran one of the publishers out of business...