Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then there was the doctor investigating the side effects of the pill. In his zeal to prove that the side effects were largely psychosomatic, he prescribed a sugar placebo to unknowing Chicano women who had approached him for the contraceptive. The game ended when, nine months later, they all gave birth to unwanted babies...
Throughout the deep stock market slump of the past 2½ months, some investors have been buying all the shares they can lay their hands on. But their interest is highly selective. With all the zeal of an author singlehandedly trying to make his book a bestseller, many of the nation's best-known corporations are buying up their own stock...
...Almost from the day the two men met (in 1906, in Paris), Schuhkin's appetite for Matisse's pictures was ravenous. Over the next seven years he bought at least 37 of them. It is still the best Matisse collection that exists, partly because it embodies the zeal with which, around 1909, this greatest of all modern French artists applied himself to the issue of large-scale, "decorative" figure compositions. Matisse's fauve years, with their hot drumfire of broken, dissonant color, were behind him. Now he was engaged in calming his art, endowing it with...
Loyalty to a President is, of course, desirable in a department official, although Gray's zeal sounds extreme. It is not at all appropriate, however, in a police official whose agency prides itself on arriving objectively at facts. A political police force is obviously anathema to a democracy. It may well have been asking far too much to expect Gray to abandon such deeply held attitudes after he was shifted...
Attitude. Lewis and a crew of Amtrak marketing men, most of them hired from airlines, are out to promote rather than merely provide rail passenger service. Lewis himself came to Amtrak from the aerospace industry (he was once president of General Dynamics) and has maintained his zeal for rail travel despite a Congress-ordered slash in his salary from $125,000 to $60,000 a year. Amtrak is now plugging airline-style package weekend tours that include train and hotel reservations in a single, discount price, and has negotiated car-rental discounts for Amtrak passengers at some destination points. Although...