Word: zeal
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...doing my stuff for kids purely because it was fun, because I had my own kids, and because I do enjoy it. But as I began to do more and more of it, it sort of pleased me that I was going at it with a sort of missionary zeal,” he says, reveling in the grandiose nature of the last two words...
...cast, however, delivers the sometimes groan-worthy material with aplomb, throwing themselves into the jailings, cleanings, tangos, water-torture attempts, and unrequited pinings with zeal. As Dimna, Jones struts, saunters, and laughs evilly over her today-the-dining-hall-tomorrow-the-world outlook. As Peter, the hapless roommate of the kidnapped George, Sheldon is adorably overeager in his pursuit of Veronica...
...handout that was given to all of the protesters in attendance claimed that “management has skipped over multiple steps in the disciplinary process in their zeal to intimidate a fearless fighter for workplace justice...
...group of Chicago lawyers, attacking elements of the Meese-Reagan "original intent" vision because it "overlooks the importance of subsequent events in the development of our law." Even Conservative Justice William Rehnquist spoke out last week, though more cryptically, when he criticized Franklin Roosevelt for his "quite unnecessary" zeal in trying to pack the Supreme Court with supporters...
...this Vladivostok agreement that Jimmy Carter wanted to push aside in 1977 in his evangelic zeal to substitute deep cuts in missiles and warheads. But surprises are not welcome in the programmed society of the U.S.S.R. Brezhnev, sicker than ever, angrily turned down the idea. It took Carter two years more to get back to Ford's agreement. Before he rushed off to tell the world of his SALT II achievement in Vienna's Hofburg Palace, he kissed Brezhnev on both cheeks, the way they do down in Georgia--Soviet Georgia--a kiss seen round the world...