Word: zeal
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Some of the puritanical zeal remains. Last week the junta outlawed holiday parties and the exchange of Christmas cards as "ill-suited to revolutionary aims...
Pleurisy gave Charlemagne a final month in bed, and he spent it searching for errors in Latin Bible texts. He could afford a sublime death. In the 46 years of his reign he had extended his empire across all Europe. With a kind of ecumenical zeal, he had made Christians out of Saxons, Serbs and Slavs, and with paternal zeal, he had made kings out of both his sons-Louis the Pious in Aquitaine, Pippin in Italy. He died at 71, in 814. but his power was so immense that the full century that followed still bears his name...
...company and forced the automotive giants of Detroit to bring out their own compacts. Romney sold the idea-and he is a super salesman. He went out on the road in a crusade against the "gas-guzzling dinosaurs" in the big-car field. That was the same sort of zeal that he applied to politics...
Last March they were on location in Hong Kong, and the resulting affair blazed through Korea's hot summer. Kim quietly divorced her husband, a director, a month ago. But Choi's wife, a Korean actress, brought charges of adultery. Still fired by the puritan zeal that Korea's new rulers made fashionable after their May 1961 coup, the prosecutor sent the pair off to Seoul's grim Sodaemun Prison in handcuffs. The news was a shocking disappointment to their fans. "Their immorality only evokes Hollywood," wrote one angry reader to a Seoul paper. "The helplessly...
...first hour of a big story, a wire-service reporter's zeal and television's vivid eye often provide the best witnesses of the event. But then come the consequences-not so easy to photograph or to flash as a bulletin. Any confrontation so major as the Cuban crisis leaves behind it an international trail of responses, regrets and reappraisals. Sometimes these become the most lasting effect of the event, as peoples and their leaders take new account of the shifting forces, and respond accordingly...