Word: zealousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hearst papers, points of style may be changed between editions by a peremptory wire from the Chief. When Hearst first turned against the New Deal, Hearstlings were ordered to refer to it as the Raw Deal. Some zealous copyreaders even changed the phrase in New Dealers' speeches in praise of the Administration. And when W.R.H. once got mad at Stanford University (it refused to fire a professor he suspected of Communism), and banned its name from his papers, his sport editors went grey trying to fit such substitutes as "Men from Palo Alto" into headlines...
They agreed that Douglas was the man who would add most to the ticket. As a Westerner, he might offset the Republicans' Earl Warren. As a zealous New Dealer, he was the one candidate who could draw away some of Henry Wallace's left-wingers...
...Zealous students had tried to get rid of the offending words, but Rivera had simply painted them back in. Two days later some other zealot sneaked to the Del Prado Hotel, scraped out the words once more, and added three long scratches to Rivera's portrait of himself as a boy. At that, the government stepped in, boarded up the dining room with three thicknesses of heavy lumber, and assigned it a 24-hour police guard...
...report on Harlem [TIME, May 17]. Eight years before his ". . . two-year-project to reduce delinquency in Harlem," I established a psychiatric clinic at P.S. 89, in deep Harlem, under the sponsorship of the boss of the Truant Officers, George Chatfield. My final report, after two years of zealous effort, is so close to your April 5th [review of] the present Harlem Report, that I shall spare you the actual comparisons. And this was six years before Jansen's special pleading that Harlem gangs "mimicked on the streets the warfare their older brothers were waging in Europe...
When Dizzy Gillespie hit Sweden and Denmark, the halls were barely big enough to hold all the beboppers; in Paris, zealous French zazous (jazz fans) came to blows over him. Last week, Manhattan's Carnegie Hall was full of beboppers. Bebop* was apparently no laughing matter...