Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...color barrier. Since he quit baseball, Robinson has been a vice president in charge of labor relations for Chock Full O'Nuts Corp., an eatery chain and coffee company with a high proportion of Negro employees. Doubling as a Post columnist, Jackie has been chock full o' zeal and sometimes chock full o' nonsense...
Hoess offers no new facts on the grisly mass murders. What he achieves is the imagination-defying portrait of a monster, a man who approached killing and torture with the zeal of an efficiency expert and counted corpses with the cool dedication of a trained bookkeeper. It was his special form of insanity-widespread in Nazi Germany-that he regarded himself as a sane, ordinary man with an ordinary but difficult job to perform, and he secretly craved recognition for the efficiency with which he carried it out under unteutonically chaotic conditions...
Missionary Zeal. Neither the snakes nor the nymphos will leave Peter Fletcher alone, for he is an advanced alcoholic of vaguely endearing charm. However, it is not pleasant to keep Peter's company, and Author Treat, a newspaperman (Connecticut's Danbury News-Times) and "arrested" alcoholic, does not mean...
Written with more missionary zeal than narrative skill, The Endless Road is dedicated to two propositions: 1) the alcoholic is sick, sick, sick; 2) Alcoholics Anonymous offers the only real help...
...fish inspires such zeal or exacts such sacrifice from its pursuers as the huchen of the Alps. He who would snare a huchen (pronounced Aooken) must fight his way to riverbanks through drifts of snow, shiver for hours in near-zero weather temperatures, often squinting at his line through a needling spray of sleet. For only in winter's nadir does Europe's mightiest game fish begin to strike as it gets ready to spawn in the spring. And only when the weather is abominable-visibility poor, the river lashed by storm-will the wary huchen flash...