Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...zeal of Southern Negro students rubbed off on white collegians thousands of miles away. Sympathy pickets appeared last week before Woolworth's stores in Boulder, Colo., Madison, Wis., and Boston, lent weight to a drive organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to exert economic pressure against five-and-dime chains. Variety stores in North and South were feeling the pinch of Negro economic pressure-a new weapon long deemed too risky-but so far the Negroes had not yet won so much as an integrated cup of coffee below the Potomac...
...weakness of 19th century theology, as Barth sees it, was that it tried above all to confront and adapt itself to the times. Through theology's wide-open doors and windows "came so much stimulation for thought and discussion that there was hardly time or love or zeal left for the task to be accomplished within the house itself. With all its energies captivated by the world, 19th century theology achieved little in terms of a new and positive understanding of Christian truth...
...generals snapped quickly into line, toned down their talk of gaps and lags -at least in public. General Thomas White, the Air Force chief, called Tommy Power's zeal "unfortunate," then muted his own appeals for more funds. While he also favored an air-alert program and greater speed in building the B70 supersonic bomber, White said that his own responsibilities were "relatively narrow" and that his requests had been refused by "my superiors" (i.e., Defense Secretary Thomas Gates and President Eisenhower), and he accepts the decisions and respects the men who made them. General Lyman Lemnitzer, the Army...
...last festival, in 1954, was a major disaster; no fewer than 350 people were trampled to death and drowned, 200 were counted missing, and over 2,000 were injured. This year Indian authorities took elaborate pains to protect the zealous from their zeal...