Word: zeal
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...poverty, the Negro by hatred of his father and his father's compromises with oppression. Arrogant, mocking, indefensible in his behavior, Henry humiliates Britten in front of Britten's wife. The white man demands an apology, gets none and murders the Negro. Brought to trial through the zeal of a "renegade white" newspaper owner (Pat Hingle), the killer is automatically acquitted...
...Phillips Brooks House volunteers in their efforts to prevent juvenile delinquency. Most understaffed settlement house directors are too involved in other activities to give some volunteers the guidance they need. Feeling very much alone without competent supervision or esprit de corps with other PBH workers, these volunteers lose their zeal and eventually quit, disillusioned...
...appeal to our President to exercise the greatest amount of care in protecting his life and limb, without, of course, curbing his zeal for life...
...appeal to our President to exercise the greatest amount of care in protecting his life and limb, without, of course, curbing his zeal for life...
...Private Zeal. In many respects, IRI behaves like a private enterprise. President Petrilli, 51, a gracious economics professor who directs the many-sided complex from a baroque building on Rome's Via Veneto, encourages the chiefs of its 130 companies to stand on their own with a minimum of bureaucratic stuffiness. IRI has sold to private investors up to 45% of the stock in some of its individual companies, has joined in ventures with U.S. Steel and Raytheon. Italy's leftists have damned IRI as a thinly disguised capitalist entity; on the other hand, conservatives have complained that...