Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." --Louis D. Brandeis...
...handful of bigots to know these facts may be asking too a blatant and ignorant zeal, they have condemned a is at the forefront of our common fight against AIDS. If factors in this struggle, it is they...
Moreover, we agree with Mr. Singer that we were in error in attempting to interrupt the sacred forum of a Harvard classroom. We offer our most humble apologies to the entire university, and even to the threatened heritage we are trying to uphold. Sometimes, in our zeal, we go too far. We hope our jubilant "disruption" did not tarnish the great honor we hoped to bestow upon the award recipients...
...1940s. During much of the '50s, his life followed an all-too-familiar pattern-the broke and brooding jazz musician who turns to booze and drugs. Yet in 1957 he kicked drugs cold turkey at his mother's house, subsisting only on water and a new-found religious zeal...
Fiscal discipline? In fact, the project is cultural defoliation--an attempt to destroy "liberal" habitat. If there was any doubt about its momentum, the young velociraptors in Congress--freshman ideologues, mostly, squeaking with Newtish zeal--buried it three weeks ago. These boys and girls aren't even cultural Neanderthals. They're Jurassic. On culture, the limbic forebrain can hold one sound bite at a time, courtesy of Rush Limbaugh or George Will. PBS? "Elitist welfare for the rich." The NEA? "State-subsidized porn." The NEH? "P.c. revisionist history." By a vote of 230 to 194, driven by a rump...