Word: zeal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...oldsters who met last week in Miami Beach offered small hope for labor's future. They were too much a part of its past. Most of them had come up through labor's ranks during the '20s and '30s, conquering hard times with a crusading zeal. Most of them won badges of labor honor in the form of busted heads and bloodied noses during the days of labor's surge to power...
...arms dating back to the Crusades. The leader, Lieut. Colonel Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry, 35, who had graduated from the famed Polytechnique and served as a brilliant air force engineer, revealed himself as a man who put great industry, intelligence and logic to work within a framework of mad zeal...
...league also went to work on vaudeville producers who featured unshaven Jewish comics and movie producers who portrayed Jews as usurious misers. In its zeal, the league at first sought local censorship ordinances, even tried to have such works as Oliver Twist and The Merchant of Venice removed from school reading programs. Later the league reversed itself and declared: "The Merchant is an accepted classic of world literature. As a work of great artistic quality, it cannot, in a free society, be subject to censorship...
...congressional committee (he was never summoned), all Frazier could talk about was Ricciardi's curly hair. "My own view," wrote Frazier, "is that if U.S. Representative John Blatnik has any feeling for beauty, he will first compliment Mr. Ricciardi on his barber. Then, if he has any investigative zeal, he will inquire how many strokes with the brush Mr. Ricciardi gives those dazzling locks each night." Enraged. Ricciardi consulted his lawyer, who advised: "All he's said is that you have a nice head of hair. You can't sue for that, my friend...
...this." Musicians have told him so. too. but the Maazel they see most clearly is not the blushing ambassador. He is the young maestro who was called "Little Lorin" for so many years that he now insists on "Mr. Maazel.'' the austere young genius who in his zeal to become a man sometimes cannot still Little Lorin's sweet, boastful voice...