Word: zeal
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...Stalin summoned him to Moscow with orders to curb the zeal of the N.K.V.D., which was making the state more enemies than it was catching. Beria promptly purged the purgers, began what for Russia was a comparatively kid-gloved regime. Was it time again for the iron fist...
...Russians last week staged a boosters' get-together. At Karlshorst, some 40 German administrators of Germany's Russian zone discussed progress and problems with 30 Soviet colleagues. There were three days of dinners, concerts, ballets and pep-talks. With Babbittical zeal, Marshal Georgi Zhukov strove to show the delegates that theirs was the greatest little zone in all of Germany. Said he: ". . . Our zone will, by virtue of its own achievements . . . command respect and assume a position of leadership...
...petty bourgeois at his worst-a worst already recorded by such masters as Flaubert. Their sordid motives and moral density probably reached an all-time low in the world Adolf Hitler gave them to live in-a world which both encouraged and required the type. In spite of his zeal, Author-Director Mikhail Romm has not made an adequate image of the German people. But he has made a more than adequately exciting movie-powerfully acted, and conceived and directed with considerable intelligence...
Each week air-minded Bob LeTourneau flys some 4,000 miles around the country in one of his planes to hold gospel meetings. Often he takes along a quartet of gospel singers and a soprano. Philanthropoid LeTourneau backs up his evangelistic zeal with the $13,000,000 LeTourneau Foundation...
...arrogant, bellicose General Marvin, who sent him packing for defying the General's inhumane orders. But Marvin, who appears only once, looking not unlike General George Patton, is handled with such kid-gloved tenderness that he never becomes a real, hateful antagonist. In consequence, Joppolo's zeal for spreading democracy becomes a worthy but not over-exciting crusade that lacks the dramatic conflict which would have made it exciting...