Word: zeal
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...training, grim with ascetic zeal, began last September. One month ago, Patterson got out a movie projector, threaded the film himself, and took his first and last look at the pictures of his humiliation in the first Johansson fight. From then on, often working out late at night to protect his secret, Patterson remade much of his boxing style under the canny eye of Dan Florio, an oldtime bantamweight and one of the best trainers in boxing...
Long Lists. But if Linus Pauling's list of scientific honors is as long as his arm, so is the list of way-out political organizations he has supported. Pauling is a signer and, with all the zeal of a highbrowed Babbitt, a joiner. He will put his name on most anything presented to him with even a faint humanitarian argument. Many of the outfits he has endorsed were merely odd. But some were undeniably Communist fronts, and they have got him in trouble...
...left behind him the firm foundations of a world religion. He shaped Christianity with his thought; Augustine and the church fathers built upon his theology, and Martin Luther found in Paul's writings the key to the Reformation: justification by faith. He stamped Christianity deeply with his missionary zeal; no other religion has penetrated into the corners of the world so persistently, and so careless of the odds, always within the echo of Paul's exclamation: "Woe is unto me, if I preach not the Gospel...
...Christian opposition. He has been accused by his detractors of altering the simple, love-centered religion of Jesus in his frenzy to organize new churches, of obscuring the gentle teachings of the Gospels in a cloud of murky mysticism, of supplanting the purity of the Disciples with an opportunistic zeal for converts that could lead him to say that he was "all things to all men, that I might by all means save some...
...color barrier. Since he quit baseball, Robinson has been a vice president in charge of labor relations for Chock Full O'Nuts Corp., an eatery chain and coffee company with a high proportion of Negro employees. Doubling as a Post columnist, Jackie has been chock full o' zeal and sometimes chock full o' nonsense...