Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Islamic Zeal. In Libya, other foreigners also sense increasing hostility. The twelve-man Revolutionary Command Council, of which Gaddafi is the leader, last June closed down the giant Wheelus U.S. Air Force Base near Tripoli and British bases at Tobruk and El Adem in eastern Libya. Police stop autos driven by foreigners and question them at length. Cyclists display an alarming proclivity for sweeping close to pedestrians in Western clothes. Many British and American oil company executives are now concerned enough to send their families home. Enrollment in the school for foreign children in Tripoli is expected to drop from...
...India. Even the most notorious recruiter, Father Cyriac Puthenpura, who enlisted at least 500 novices himself, seems to have used his profits for a beneficent purpose: to build the Nirmala Bhavan (Home of the Pure of Heart) Secular Institute for girls in Kerala's Ettumannur district. In his zeal, however, Puthenpura may have oversold his audience. His recruits did not, as he claimed, "live like princesses" in Europe. Like novices everywhere, they had to wash dishes, scrub floors, and perform other menial tasks...
...found concerned Porter's interest in new-fangled machines. Trudging behind his portable studio as a young man, he had conceived of an airship with the possibility of freeing Napoleon from St. Helena. Most of his notions were more down to earth. With typical inventor's zeal, he sought to devise easy solutions to practical problems. When he saw his wife laboring over the scrub board, he invented a washing machine. In 1846 he published plans for a Broadway elevated railroad, preceding by two decades the first...
Borsalino is a silly Gallic gangster flick that means no harm. It's good enough fun, in a kind of punch-drunk way, what with all its elaborate costumes, its opulent sets, its duke-outs, shootups and gang wars. But in their campy zeal to duplicate the hard-boiled crime genre of the '30s and '40s, the film makers lapse frequently into a kind of hysterical, hell-for-leather hyperbole that gives the movie an air of burlesque gone overboard...
...have no sympathy for those corporate laggards who transact business as usual, waiting for the governmental whip to prod them into action. If big business needs guidance in formulating social acceptance programs, why doesn't it seek out political and social scientists and ecologists with the same zeal it displays in wooing accountants and engineers...