Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wilkin's citation: For almost half a century, he as worked with quiet zeal to realize the constitutional promises of our nation...
...Government pursued its prosecution with immense care and zeal, for more was at stake than the fates of a pair of inept spies. The trial, which ended in the colonial courthouse in Alexandria, Va., last Friday, set the stage for the testing of a crucial constitutional question: whether a U.S. President can order wiretaps without a judicial warrant in cases involving national security...
Much has been made of the fact that Cauthen was preparing for the jockey's craft at the age of twelve. His zeal was tireless: flailing bales of hay to practice his whip technique, huddling with his father over race films to decipher the art of moving a horse up in traffic or setting him down for the stretch run, crouching along the rail at the starting gate to learn how to navigate those first chaotic moments of a race. At 13, he was practicing yoga to develop his concentration?yoga at 13!?because he knew he would need...
This bizarre situation has been caused by a combination of bad planning, bureaucratic bungling and environmentalist zeal. Contrary to the expectations of oil companies when the Alaskan pipeline was proposed, the West Coast states just cannot use all the North Slope output of 1.2 million bbl. a day, primarily because energy-saving measures have cut anticipated demand. A federal oil-pricing scheme has further reduced the use of California's own oil within the state...
...militantly press the case for a new social and economic order. In El Salvador, for example, two priests were killed and others were threatened with assassination by government-allied right-wing terrorists for espousing redistribution of property. According to Latin American experts in the Vatican, the Pontiff welcomed the zeal for social change that followed Medellin, but now feels that the emphasis has become too political. He wants the church to help correct social injustice without prescribing any single political approach for Catholics to follow...