Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arizona's Congressman Morris ("Mo") Udall, the only declared candidate in the herd, served coffee and doughnuts while they lasted but had 85 volunteers-the largest contingent at the convention-hand ing out his low-budget literature. Senator Henry Jackson, the present front runner by the measure of zeal if not appeal, mounted the best-organized campaign. Sitting in a trailer on the floor beneath the auditorium, Jackson played host to a stream of delegates selected by his 35 coordinators. Jackson, who already has $500,000 in his war chest, was the guest of honor at a fund-raising...
Some who otherwise support Bernardin wonder whether his cautious decision making and cultivation of approval may not be signs of overweening ambition. His defenders contend that if the archbishop is ambitious, his zeal is for the welfare of his church, not himself. An almost compulsive worker, Bernardin rises at 6 a.m. to put in a 17-hour day of diocesan business and prayer. But his work is not all done at a desk: he enjoys spending many hours in informal but often serious talk with his fellow clergy and lay people...
...became a radio newsman there 34 years ago, Umansky has propelled KAKE to top ratings among Wichita's TV stations. He enjoys exposes (unhygienic restaurants and price fixing by pharmacies have been among KAKE's targets) and has long believed that Wichita's papers lack zeal...
...token effect on the rate of inflation. Harvard's John Kenneth Galbraith, for one, argues that such proposals are "conventional pieties" that bear "no relation whatever to the problem of remedying inflation." Other economists contend that the best measure of the importance of the sacred cows is the zeal with which special-interest groups have fought to enshrine them in law and regulatory practice. Killing them now would cause real pain for some groups, but the nation's interest in containing inflation should take precedence...
...Bernice Brown have always been somewhat awed by the single-minded zeal of then- only son. When the boy was in seventh grade and short for his age, he vigorously argued that he should be given hormone shots so that he would grow tall enough to dance with girls who had already sprouted. (The shots were denied him, but hi time he reached a height of 5' 10^".) Kathy, Jerry Brown's younger sister, watched sympathetically as her brother was raised in the penumbra of his father...