Word: zealously
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...principles proved corruptible, where his powers seemed to fail. It is a powerful irony that for all the differences, the Iran affair smacks of Watergate, in the sense that the abuse of the highest power undoes the king (the highest power manipulated by little knights, stupid and zealous). That one of the most beloved American Presidents should have found himself in danger of recapitulating the fates of Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson is American political theater edging toward the Shakespearean...
...other alleged insiders have done. The firm plans to provide Freeman with legal counsel and keep him on the job unless he is proved guilty. Confides a New York City securities lawyer familiar with the charges: "This is one case where the Government may have been a little too zealous." Kidder too aims to defend Wigton, its accused executive, against the charges...
That of course happened to Walt Disney, Howard Johnson and Margery's father, C.W. Post. Apple invents their stories through a series of flashbacks and vignettes. Here is Post, a zealous vegetarian, who sees dry cereal not as a means to get rich but as a way to "save all the animals on the face of the earth." There is Johnson, who spends much of each year being chauffeured across America, picking sites for future motels through some instinctive knowledge of where future tired travelers will want to be treated to the comforts of home. Among the three dreamers, Disney...
Calling North and Poindexter "heroes to this country for a long time," Hatch said that Congress should "stop being vindictive." He added, "They are zealous people who want to help the freedom fighters, and believe me they are freedom fighters...
...second phase of the attack focused on peasant families who had not been categorized as kulaks. Deprived of their land and animals, they were hustled into collective farms by zealous Communist Party activists. Resistance was widespread. Babski bunty -- women's rebellions -- erupted among mothers who relied on the family cows to provide milk for their children. In some regions military aircraft were used to strafe villages in revolt. Peasants retaliated by slaughtering more than 40% of the nation's cattle. Tens of thousands of men and women were shot; one border police commander reported to the Politburo that the rivers...