Word: zealousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battered Norman town, zealous U.S. sanitary officers pursued a putrid smell. They arrived at a storehouse, staggered back as the full power of 10,000 ripening Camembert cheeses oozed out the opened door. The officers commandeered a quantity of precious gasoline, saturated the building and its contents, stood back in satisfaction as one more apparent hazard to the health of troops went up in smoke. The frantic, howling owner did not speak enough English to make them understand that his stinking hoard really smelled just right...
...Beacon, weekly publication of the fundamentalist Bible Presbyterian Church again trained its guns on the U.S. Navy. Four of its eight tabloid-size pages were spattered with editorials, copies of official letters, affidavits concerning a Southern Baptist Navy chaplain who was relieved of active duty "because of his extremely zealous evangelistic inclinations [which were] embarrassing and disquieting to the associates in the Navy...
...name was that of Theodore Dubois, 33, private in Canada's Home Defense Army. The club's president, zealous Captain Roy Longworth Byron, assistant to Canada's director of army recruiting, had written to Dubois suggesting that he volunteer for overseas service so that there would be no "blackout" on the club's honor roll. Dubois had stood on his rights (Canada gives its draftees a choice between overseas and home-defense service) and refused...
Shades of the Past. In a nation which has never been calmer and less hysterical in time of war, the 30 people now on trial for sedition could take comfort from a more zealous, witch-hunting U.S. past...
Sober Solon. Top Social Crediter for years was zealous, Bible-quoting William C. Aberhart. He rose to power in Alberta in 1935 by dazzling voters with promises (which he was unable to fulfill) of $25 a month apiece. Bill Aberhart died last year, but his Party still rules Alberta, has ten members in Ottawa's House of Commons. Out of these remnants, Solon Low must try to build a national political force...