Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...zeal behind such rhetorical smoke may face an early tempering in the U.N., where China will be forced to make hard choices between ideology and the practical imperatives of diplomacy. Probably Peking's least difficult task will be reaching agreement with Moscow and Washington on a new Secretary-General to replace the retiring U Thant, who collapsed in his office last week and was hospitalized for treatment of a peptic ulcer. A far harder problem is posed by the Middle East. Peking, which last week refused to accept a congratulatory telegram from Israel, one of its supporters...
...prospect of an isolationist America perturbed the Europeans. Giuseppe Bertola, of Switzerland's Brown Boveri, said: "I have always found in America a certain missionary zeal. The First World War made the world safe for democracy and revived in Europe the truth about the American dream, the American way of life, and so on. Now it seems that this missionary zeal has been lost in the big changes through which we are passing. America speaks no more of leadership, but of partnership. Everybody is confused by what is intended, because just at a moment when it is necessary...
Instead of such a girl, however, Agnew has as press secretary an eloquent right-wing ideologue named Victor Gold. Proudly admitting that Agnew is "not a guy who can be packaged," Gold, 43, performs his assignment with a frantic zeal that occasionally compounds his problems but is more often effective in smoothing things over...
...survivor of one of those Christmas family massacres in which the unemployed father shoots his wife and children and then takes his own life. He is adopted by Dr and Mrs. Pedersen of Lockport, N.Y., and assumes their name. The doctor is a Hegelian on wheels who, in his zeal for personal accomplishment, conducts dinnertime inquisitions, getting progress reports and dishing out praise and censure to his family...
Helping the poor is one of mankind's nobler activities, but as with all good works, it can be pursued with excessive zeal. That, at least, seems to be the case in Chicago, where some donors complain that goods they have left clearly marked for pickup by one charitable organization have been pilfered by truck drivers for a rival charity. People have reported that Amvets trucks have picked up clothing left for the Salvation Army. An Amvets official denies that this is being done but says witnesses have seen Salvation Army drivers making off with Amvets bundles. And Goodwill...