Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...place flashing the "V" sign and urging students to follow him down to Washington and lobby for peace. Many students felt, and still feel, that lobbying in Congress is the best way to end the war. But many other students questioned the sincerity of the University's anti-war zeal, and pointed to contradictions in its stance. Harvard ROTC, for example, continued to turn out officers for the fighting overseas. Then there was the presence of the Center for International Affairs and the Cambridge Project, through which social science research was channelled for use by the government in Vietnam...
Giving a hard, immediate edge to the battle was the behavior of many of the 200-odd New Jersey state troopers called in to quell the rioting, a job some executed with zeal. Ninety-two blacks were wounded by police shotguns and pellet guns. But Asbury Park's black residents had smashed the town's complacency. After two days of rioting, but before the white district had been hit, Mayor Joseph F. Mattice had said: "We're very fortunate it occurred where it did. It didn't affect our business area...
...might be willing to make a slightly larger contribution. So might West Germany, but Bonn could not raise more troops without jeopardizing Chancellor Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik, aimed at easing his country's long-strained relations with its eastern neighbors. The decline of NATO's defense zeal could well impede its progress as a force for détente. In fact, the main virtue of NATO's invitation was that it shifted the pressure for the next move to the other side...
Burning with zeal and idealism, half a hundred young newsmen and anti-Establishment hangers-on gathered in Chicago last week at a national seminar for "fed-up journalists of the straight media." They came to complain about things like racial discrimination, subpoenas and the lack of freedom for reporters to tell it like it is. But first, certain restrictive rules were laid down for reporters covering the meeting: they must agree not to quote anyone at all by name without permission, and they must submit copies of all the stories they filed for comparison with what was published...
...American people more than political indignation and blind zeal. We owe them thought, competence and knowledge. If we permit the destruction of the university, we would betray our own direct responsibility...