Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debate is the intelligence community. Its photoreconnaissance specialists and weapons analysts are the gumshoes who stake out the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces. But these detectives are concerned about protecting their "sources and methods" as well as catching the crooks. The CIA is anxious that the Pentagon hardliners, in their zeal to prosecute the Soviets in public, will give away sensitive intelligence secrets about how much the U.S. knows and how it knows it. Some intelligence experts also interpret the data about Soviet activities as being more ambiguous than the hard-liners want to assert...
...awkward moment: "At first I didn't want to wave a flag. But on the last night of the convention I was waving two of them." The party was demonstrating to itself and to the public that Democrats were no longer embarrassed by corny displays of national zeal. "I think that the Democratic Convention showed that we don't own the flag," said White House Pollster Richard Wirthlin during the G.O.P.'s gathering in Dallas. "I felt one of the most successful things was their ability to [evoke] traditional values, and that included not only patriotism...
...zeal? Why now, when the tigers have yet to capture the American League pennant and the World Series? Detroit has known for months that the Tigers would go at least this far. Tonight, nobody is surprised, but everyone is enjoying the manic celebration...
Within days of the Raup-Sepkoski announcement, word of their work quickly spread to other areas of science. Astronomers leaped into the fray with the greatest zeal, and before long, the race was on to explain one of the most intriguing theories of life on earth...
...retail politician, familiar with the back room and able to appeal to interest groups by intimately understanding their issues and voicing their concerns. After two long and exhausting years campaigning for the presidency, Mondale still has not shaped an overarching theme or articulated an inspiring vision that could spark zeal among those who agree with him on specific issues. With only eight weeks left before the election, he must soon begin kindling some fires...