Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This year's package was produced by several dozen staffers, under the guidance of assistant managing editor Jim Kelly. Associate editor Priscilla Painton, who approaches every subject with tireless zeal, spent a month interviewing Ted Turner's family, friends and associates. "I discovered that there was something new to say about him," says Painton. "He is a changed man not just because he fell madly in love or because he got older, but because he made an emotionally strenuous effort to grow up. There are no trophies in his office commemorating this adventure, but it may be the most courageous...
...Cabinet Secretary Koichi Kato: "Americans told us to be diligent and work hard. We followed that advice. Now we are criticized for our virtue. There is a smoldering frustration about that." Sensitivity extends to the way Japanese reporters minutely track U.S. opinions of their country, in an almost masochistic zeal to record any bad views...
...newfound zeal for the teachings of the Reverend Professor Gomes, I have written anything here which seems to the more timid of The Crimson's readers to be contrary to Christian piety or good natural sense, I can only answer that I lay no claim to being a professor of Christian morals; and thus in matters pertaining to Christian ethics, I consider that I can do no better than to take up Gomes's opinions, and follow them with enthusiasm wherever they lead...
...first I found Christoph's messianic zeal as off-putting as the detached manner of the doctor at my H.M.O. When Christoph checked my "energy centers," my mind summoned up horror stories of patients crippled by chiropractic quacks. Deficiencies in my sixth (or was it fifth?) "chakra" notwithstanding, once Christoph had finished his Procrustean pullings, crackings and pushings, the pain was gone and I felt 20 lbs. lighter...
...that make voters happy in 1992 and lift the economy too? Once the song started, almost no one wanted to be caught out of tune. Not since both parties raced to heap tax breaks on their constituents a decade ago had Washington seen such an outbreak of charitable zeal. While economists denounced the latest proposals as too little too late and virtually certain to worsen the federal deficit, their warnings went largely unheeded...