Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...July, he outpolled six other candidates, then went on to trounce favored Congressman William Jennings Bryan Dorn in the runoff. He was expected to have no trouble defeating Republican State Senator James Edwards, 47, a Charleston dentist with a right-wing following, in the November election. But in his zeal to succeed, Ravenel failed to read-or heed-the fine print in the state constitution...
...boots and bullet-studded pistol belt of an underground fighter. But the founder of al-Fatah and leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization is now more politician and diplomat than guerrilla commander. He travels almost constantly around the Arab world, shoring up support for his movement. Arafat's zeal for the Palestinians' cause is undiminished, reported TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager after an interview with the P.L.O. chairman in Beirut, but it has become tempered with pragmatism. Excerpts...
...actress-wife Chiang Ching, 60, the party radicals are trying to keep ah've the intransigent revolutionary zeal of the Cultural Revolution. They see the pragmatic policies of Chou and the moderates threatening the purity of China's revolution. They are opposed, it seems, to Chou's tolerance of material incentives and his willingness to sacrifice ideological correctness for the sake of technical expertise. The most notable example is Chou's policy of detente with the West. Not only is accommodation with an imperialist country like the U.S. ideologically questionable, but trade with capitalist countries...
...fully agree that President Ford is earnest in his intentions of holding down federal spending, as is evidenced by his veto of a $47 million health research program. However, in his zeal to instill a "sense of self-sacrifice," Mr. Ford may have overlooked the fact that some people may not have that much to "sacrifice"-especially those whom the health research program was designed to help...
...strengths. I was ready to meet Harvard head-on and no longer worried about becoming diseased by the place. Stanford's innoculation prevented growth of the germ which, I discovered, had been inside of me all along. Once I had recognized my ambitious nature, I could keep my competitive zeal in check and deal with Harvard people without developing compulsive anxiety attacks about who I was and where I was going...