Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Already a member of the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches, lovely Candida is also enrolled in an evangelical sect called Pilgrim Zeal, which has promised her a trip to their holy of holies: Minneapolis, Minn. Candida races about the islands with the enraptured but platonic Henry (her only proviso: "We must not make a baby!"). She involves him in punching a local union leader in the jaw and horsewhipping an editor. The timid colonial government claps Henry into jail and ships him off as a bundle for Britain...
...Scripps newspapers had become chronic growlers instead of champions of the public interest. Scripps made Howard a partner in the chain, let him renovate the policy of the papers. In no time at all they became more determinedly "different"-but in the process lost much of the idealistic Scripps zeal...
...history. To see a record number of 7,000 athletes from a record number of 85 countries, spectators spent a record $3,200,000 for tickets before the first event was held. Among the athletes were scores of strong-willed and strong-muscled individualists, men and women with the zeal to toil through tedious years of training and the control to reach their peak in the brief, intense flurry of com petition. Even in such a high-caliber group, a dignified U.S. Negro named Rafer Johnson stood...
Soon the reporters swarming over the story were exceeding the investigators in zeal. Two days after the child's body was found, the Cook County sheriff's office took a 13-year-old boy out to the scene of the crime. He had broken out of a detention home on the day of the murder and had been caught several hours later...
...little politicians with their masks down; and some great human interest moments, as when Senator Barry Goldwater's teen-age daughter leaned out of her box during the floor demonstration for her father and literally wept into an NBC microphone. But the networks' competitive zeal, their cameras poking at every face and their microphones inching up to every mouth, reached a point of diminishing returns. Too often TV reporters were not covering events but only themselves trying to create events. Candidates caught in motorcade after motorcade, or followed up and down their hotels floor by floor, quickly became...