Word: zeal
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While his international experience left him with a more sober outlook on life, Pierce’s zeal for helping children is the tie that binds his pre- and post-Moroccan selves...
...perfectly evident that he pursued his studies with the same zeal and excellence that he turned out for the Lampoon,” Limpert says...
...already dead or when the mother’s life is in danger. Women’s rights advocates fear that the legislation will prevent doctors from performing partial birth abortions, even when the procedure is the safest way to protect a woman’s life. In their zeal to protect the rights of the fetus, pro-life members of Congress have endangered the health, and possibly the lives, of American women. This marks the first time Congress has limited a woman’s right to choose since Roe v. Wade. It is a disturbing precedent...
...race for class president at a New Jersey high school that became a satisfyingly nasty movie. He didn't invent the notion that high school sucks, nor is he breaking new ground when he reveals that American suburbs are petri dishes of ennui and alienation. But he shows admirable zeal in prosecuting the case, and he comes as close as anybody to answering a not unimportant question: If the suburbs are the perfect community, the incarnation in grass and sunlight of American affluence, then how come life there is such hell...
Ambition and moral zeal were his propellants, and Califano never slowed down. His memoir, Inside: A Public and Private Life (Public Affairs; 539 pages), is as jam-packed and energetic as his life...