Word: zeal
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...taking over the great house this month, Mrs. Eisenhower will be assisted by a present complement of 64 (full staff: 72) servants, most of them old retainers, wise in the ways of Washington. If she abandons her lifelong zeal for running a house and never voices a command,, the house will run well. But if she wants to order every meal, redecorate any or all of 35 upstairs rooms (her favorite colors: rose and pale green), shift Lincoln's famed 7-ft. bed, or plant geraniums in the bathtubs, she has every right...
...addition, his zeal in fighting off formula-men, a traditional function of Harvard presidents, has had much to do with the spirit of inquiry that abounds at Harvard. This is a more arduous task than one might imagine, for at present the nation's intellectual brew is filled with unusual amounts of dogma and intolerance...
...century, however, religious passions and preaching zeal had cooled. The Quakers, no longer persecuted as before, had begun to seem useful and highly stable citizens. In 1694, only three years after Fox's death, the Friends who edited and published the Journal of his life's work were busily snipping out some of the angrier and more polemic passages, for fear they might offend some one. Their abridgment became the standard version...
...never suggested that the Democrat's sweep is Philadelphia rested on ethnic considerations alone. As everyone concedes, it rested mainly on the zeal of local Democrats. Yet it is fair to say, as we did, that Philadelphia Democrats were not plagued by the same factor that plagued Boston Democrats, the Reds-in-government issue operating on people highly sensitive to the problem of Communism in general. Cities with heavy Catholic vote of cities like say, Los Angeles, where exacerbation of subversion is now a ghastly vogue, offered problems to Stevenson worker's that Philadelphia...
...walked through southern India, Malaya and the Celebes, then to Japan. His only equipment was a breviary, his Mass kit and a large parasol to protect him from the sun. He impressed Malay sultans and Japanese feudal barons with his poise, and he could sway the commonfolk by his zeal. In three months on the island of Amboina he baptized 1,200. Some of his missionary conquests were permanent-there are Christian Indians today whose ancestors he converted. Others, like his great Japanese mission, were later nullified by persecutions and royal decrees...