Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week after their military revolt, South Korea's generals were full of puritanical zeal. Khaki-clad troops with rifles patrolled the streets of Seoul, arresting jaywalkers and hauling prostitutes off to the cells. Caught dancing in a nightclub, 45 hapless young men and women were herded before stern military judges and sentenced to terms of up to a year in jail; when the police ran out of handcuffs, they lashed the prisoners together with ropes. To keep people at home nights, the authorities arrested 10,000 for violating the nightly curfew-including those who had to leave after dark...
Work or Else. In their zeal the soldiers were showing a pronounced impatience with due process of law. "We can arrest, detain and punish anyone," snapped Chang...
20th Century City. Architect Gruen, famed for spacious shopping centers (Eastland in Detroit) and a well-publicized zeal for turning downtown areas into car-free malls (Kalamazoo, Mich.), designed the slab-shaped buildings slim and high to take advantage of the island's Manhattan view and allow for landscaping. The lower buildings, varying in height and snaking along the island's length, would be topped with gardens and windbreaks for recreational facilities. The air-conditioned pedestrian concourse below would be sunlit (through glassed holes in the roof) and undulating to kill the monotony of long straight corridors...
...modern followers is just as ready to cross stormy seas in the cause of Christian unity. He is a squarejawed, hazel-eyed man of action, whose three euphonious names -Eugene Carson Blake-have become synonymous in church circles with efficient organization, knowing diplomacy, and zeal for unity...
...write as friends of Stephen Aaron to protest the false and irresponsible statements contained in your article of the eleventh of May. It is probably impossible for present undergraduates to appreciate, as do we, the dedication and zeal which Mr. Aaron has expended over nearly a decade toward the advancement of the theatre in this community; nor could any but his close associates be expected to realize his whole-hearted commitment to the Loeb Drama Center, both before and after its actual construction. But it is certainly reasonable to expect that a student newspaper will exercise a modicum of restraint...