Word: zeal
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...masturbateforpeace.com spokesperson claims the site is especially pertinent to America’s institutions for higher learning. “College students are renowned for both their love of peace and their masturbatory zeal,” a Pretzel Publishing spokesperson writes in an e-mail...
...between Dawood's lieutenants and Islamic terrorists to the smuggling of explosives into deserted coves along the coastline south of Bombay. What is most remarkable is the speed with which India's most devastating terror strike was assembled by a handful of amateurs guided only by improvisation and furious zeal: just eight weeks elapsed from the first phone call to the day of the bombings...
...wish to create an academic community free of racism, harassment, and prejudice. One would certainly expect those individuals who have chosen the law as their livelihood to be champions of an egalitarian society—both within the ivy walls and outside in the real world. But in their zeal to punish the behavior and actions of hateful people, they have begun to make speech, rather than actions, the enemy of their cause...
...name is short for Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya (Islamic Resistance Movement), but in Arabic hamas simply means "zeal." Throughout the year, the Muslim fundamentalist group showed that growing numbers of young men--and women--are willing to blow themselves up for their cause. But many Palestinians fear that with each attack international support for that cause withers...
...Greed and growth are easy targets, and they are attacked with such zeal that it's possible to overlook the heavy hand of artistic censorship in China. It's not quite invisible, however. While a few works reference the Sino-Japanese War, nothing at the exhibition addresses recent traumas, events still imbued with fresh political sensitivity. An installation inspired by last year's U.S. spy plane incident off Hainan Island was scrapped right before the exhibition was set to open, without explanation by authorities. The government is fine with history, so long as it's kept in the past...