Word: zeal
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...Some departments have gone all out to find quantitativists with an almost religious zeal, and many of them have taken the view that we've been laggards," Montgomery said...
...Wright's death--however, it is worth nothing that the manuscript was virtually complete when he died in 1980. The poems seem to have been written by someone who knew he would die, but they convey an appreciation of life that is at once quiet and fierce, a rare zeal that comes only from knowing life well...
...learn how to go low sodium without having to eat like swamis or food faddists, Americans are buying books, taking courses and exchanging gourmet gossip. The skill and zeal they display would have been impossible before the country became fascinated, for other reasons, with do-it-yourself health and haute cuisine. Says John Terry, consultant to the Allen Canning Company in Siloam Springs, Ark.: "The whole convenience idea-Just Heat, Then Serve-isn't as big now. More consumers are ready to do their own seasoning...
...talk and confrontational tactics did not come naturally to Ehrlichman. But every presidential assistant is tempted to purchase greater influence by humoring a President's moods. Ehrlichman overcompensated. To the mounting protest demonstrations, the leaks and the drift of the dissenters into extralegal activity, Ehrlichman responded with a zeal that was sometimes excessive...
Pressing the case with unusual vigor, he puts out a reward and eventually gets some arrests. The two suspects are inner-city Blacks, one a tough hoooker, the other Lucas Ebry, her part time procurer, a piece of human flotsam Corde's zeal for prosecution draws fire from many quarters. The liberals in the suburbs think he may be a racist, the college administration thinks he may be a bit unbalanced. The college radicals, led by Corde's nephew. Mason are sure he is both...