Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Selfless Zeal...
...laws that make suicide a crime, in Britain as in some parts of the U.S., go back to the early roots of English jurisprudence. In 967 A.D., King Edgar, with characteristic Christian zeal, decreed that suicides should be denied the rites of the church for violating the Sixth Commandment. Custom, later elevated to law, demanded desecration of the corpse. Until well into the 19th century. British suicides were buried at night, at crossroads, with a stake driven through their bodies. All property of suicides was forfeit to the Crown. By 1900 most of these medieval monstrosities had been repealed...
...first, up-from-the-roundhouse railroaders grumbled that Lawyer Alpert did not know a trestle from a tort-but none could question his zeal. Repeatedly, Alpert has argued that i) commuter travel is necessary, 2) the commuters cannot be expected to bear all the costs of the rail service they require and 3) somebody...
...Soviet Union does succeed in its goal-world Communism-it will richly deserve it. The Communists have worked effectively and with steadfast determination in the extension of their ideology; they have fought for their beliefs. The U.S. has not pursued its interests with equal zeal. We need a strong President, and in Senator Goldwater there could...
With a prophet's zeal, the modern Joshua who wants the walls to come tumbling down has preached his doctrine more than 120 times in the last three months to hundreds of U.S. and Canadian psychiatrists and mental health workers. Many of his hearers sputtered, "You don't really mean it!" But Dr. Bierer does. He seriously proposes the wiping out of most of the present mental hospitals, and certainly the big ones where patients are kept round the clock for months and years (though the number of patients in hospitals has been dropping since...