Word: zeal
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...Paratroopers dropped from helicopters by the dozen, impressing thousands of people holding flags, posters and cups of tea. But there was more to this massive street party than revolutionary zeal: a group of young men sporting sunglasses and too much hair gel confessed they were there only to have fun and suggested that most people in the crowd were there for the same reason...
None of this is good or bad; it just is. The books of the future may not meet all the conventional criteria for literary value that we have today, or any of them. But if that sounds alarming or tragic, go back and sample the righteous zeal with which people despised novels when they first arose. They thought novels were vulgar and immoral. And in a way they were, and that was what was great about them: they shocked and seduced people into new ways of thinking. These books will too. Somewhere out there is the self-publishing world...
...departure from the ACLU. After a dispute with the group's leadership over whether his politically charged statements in a news article were clearly identified as personal rather than professional (the ACLU is nonpartisan), Morgan resigned in 1976. It was just another example of his uncompromising, unforgettable zeal...
...errors eventually took their toll. “Ultimately what matters is that we came out with the W,” Martin said. Quinnipiac also refocused its attack in the third, outshooting Harvard 16-14. Prior to the third, however, the Bobcats’ offensive efforts lacked the zeal mustered in the final period. The first two periods belonged to the Crimson, who attacked the Quinnipiac net in a rhythmic fashion that wore down the Bobcats defense and forced Qunnipiac goaltender Tia Wishart to frequently swipe at dangerously close pucks. Eventually the barrage of shots paid...
...number of new residents appears to be slowing. "[In 2008] officials' zeal for executions was not matched by public desire for new death sentences, as evidenced by the continued steep decline in the number of new inmates arriving on death row," Houle says. Nowhere was that more apparent than in Houston, a city dubbed the "capital of capital punishment" in a study by the NAACP. After years of being a major contributor to Texas death row numbers, thanks in part to high profile "tough-on-crime" prosecutors, Houston juries sent no new prisoners to death row in 2008. The Harris...