Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...incapable of real affection, destructive to his friends, brutal to his women, cruelly indifferent to his children. Some of this is, of course, true, and it has not been a secret for years. The Big P.'s personal life was no oil painting, and Huffington documents it with zeal, leaving one in no doubt that he was to ordinary male chauvinist pigs what Moby Dick was to whales...
...called "growing confusion between science and superstition." In San Francisco and Des Moines, Dallas and New York City, Randi spoke out for rationality in what he sees as an increasingly irrational world. "It's like shoveling water uphill, but it's got to be done," he says with missionary zeal...
Ever since the pioneering transplant operations of the 1960s, the chief obstacle to the full recovery of transplant patients has been the immune system's xenophobic zeal to destroy anything that is foreign to the body. Once the alien threat has been identified, agents known as helper T cells unleash the powerful immune response that attacks grafted tissue. During the 1970s, physicians found that they could minimize this reaction by more closely matching the MHC proteins, or immunological "dog tags," of a donor with those of the recipient. Even so, they could not completely eliminate the rejection response. To make...
...union wins the election. Economic democracy as exemplified by union representation can be fine in theory and fine also in practice for some (particularly for the advocates who become union officers) but it can be desperately unpleasant for many, particularly for those who may not have the zeal or objectives of the leadership. There can be all the stress of union meetings, oratory and public votes, with the nastiness of peer pressure, office friction and ostracism for dissidents. All of this, of course, is heightened and perpetuated if there is a "job action" or consideration...
...myth does not integrate the bad Bobby, the mean Bobby, into its memory. | It glosses over the young Kennedy who, as counsel to Joseph McCarthy, relished hunting down Communists; the zeal with which he pursued Jimmy Hoffa; the campaign manager who cut down political bosses who did not toe the party line; the Attorney General who acquiesced in J. Edgar Hoover's request to tap the phone of Martin Luther King...