Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Children attack all worldly society with the fierce zeal of the Weatherman, using the cherished King James Bible as their proof text. They demand a strictly communal life as practiced by the early Christians according to the Book of Acts ("they held everything in common"). They avoid work except as it relates to their own communes, lest their members be forced to choose between God and mammon. Yet they badger businessmen to support them with handouts of money and supplies, while raging against a sinful America and proclaiming its-and the world's-imminent doom. In their most apocalyptic...
...cause was also pushed along by the nationalist zeal of the romantic, rambunctious Fenians, who eventually fathered the I.R.A. Their principal organization was the Irish Republican Brotherhood, which was founded on St. Patrick's Day, 1858, to carry on Wolfe Tone's dream of independence. Vaguely socialist in doctrine, the Brotherhood specialized in random bombings and produced its share of patriotic heroes for Ireland to keen over. Among the most famous?although hardly the most successful?were "the Manchester Martyrs," Michael Larkin, William Allen and Michael O'Brien, who were hanged in Manchester in 1867 for shooting an English constable...
...Butterflies. Sarnoff's zeal to be first with color TV led him into an epic battle with William Paley's CBS. RCA developed a "compatible" broadcast method that could send color and black-and-white signals on special color TVs, but CBS, with a superior picture, won the Federal Communications Commission's license to proceed commercially. Sarnoff ordered his engineers back to their labs. Three years later, they produced a high-quality compatible system. The FCC reversed itself, and CBS lost a big round...
...Zeal and Understanding. As if to heighten his aura of activity, Casey fills any gaps in his crowded schedule with press interviews, speaking engagements and visits to Wall Street trading floors. Such visibility is a striking contrast to the low profile maintained by the man he succeeded, Hamer Budge. Casey even matches the ebullience of Budge's predecessor, Manuel Cohen, whose activist zeal did not endear him to many securities...
...feature of political life by the target groups, organizers have developed some reticence about trusting every new recruit in their ranks. The informer must win their trust: usually he attempts this by adopting a more militant line than the rest of the rank and file. By showing great political zeal and uncompromising devotion to the cause, he hopes to be recognized as one of the initiate and moved into a position of trust...