Word: zeal
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Though Massachusetts Republicans applauded young Herter's zeal, there were reservations about his political manners. In announcing early, he stepped on the toes of his father's old friend and political supporter. Republican State Chairman Charles Gibbons, who was about to declare for governor himself. The next problem for young Herter, having put himself out front, was how to get the parade to form behind...
...Philadelphia for Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain. But Schaus finds his stars in towns like East Bank (pop. 1,500) and Shinnston (pop. 2,793). As a result, the state rightly looks on the team as its own, not a high-priced import, follows its games with chauvinistic zeal...
...club members: "It is enough to make the angels weep to see a great mass of America's wealthy and better-class sons full of zeal and fire with interest in the surging hundreds of the sisterhood of shame and death...
...grapes. Then came the job hunting: he carried a lunch pail, as if to assure any sharp-eyed foreman that he was ready for work (even though the pail was empty); once, without being hired, he pitched in on a construction crew, hoping that the supervisor would reward his zeal with pay, and got no pay. When he had only 75? left to his name, he latched on to a job as roustabout in the oilfields...
...correspondents from 38 countries who packed into Paris last week, no story of the NATO conference was followed more avidly than President Eisenhower's health. News-starved reporters based endless prognostications on Ike's posture and color, analyzed his inflections with elocutionary zeal. With every minor schedule change came a new flock of rumors; the evening that Ike canceled his appearance at the initial NATO banquet, Paris-Presse reported breathlessly that he had brought along his oxygen tent. To scuttle the scuttlebutt, White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty opened his thrice-daily press conference to the whole...