Word: zealousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...display of power and pomp, a cavalcade of retainers and richly housed palfreys, nor by gorgeous apparel, that the heretics win proselytes. It is by zealous preaching, by apostolic humility, by austerity. Zeal must be met by zeal, humility by humility, false sanctity by real sanctity, preaching falsehood by preaching truth. Sow the good seed as the heretics sow the bad. Cast off those sumptuous robes. Send away those brightly caparisoned palfreys. Go barefoot, without purse or scrip, like the apostles...
...subversion of democratic rights to the dictates of public opinion and the fears of hyper-sensitive officials. Under the new plan, the Attorney-General has the power to decide which groups constitute a menace to the security of the nation. This widespread discrimination in the hands of an over-zealous or personally ambitious officer could easily result in the practical exclusion of free thought in government circles. A program advocating the investigation of every employee's soul as well as his affiliations transcends the obvious limits of national security by its susceptibility to vicious abuse and weakens an important safeguard...
...Hawk swung the first punch and Detroit's Red Wings shook off their heavy gloves-the better to bash an enemy nose. Reinforcements swarmed on to the ice from both benches; Referee Frank ("King") Clancy, who wasn't mad at anybody until he got slugged by a zealous spectator, began swinging too. For twelve minutes, with no cops in sight, there was bedlam last week in Chicago's jampacked Stadium...
Lilienthal had many enemies. They were opposed to him not so much for what he was-a brilliant, impatient, zealous administrator-as for what he represented. He represented the New Deal, which was their shorthand way of saying: hostility to the successful businessman, government ownership of utilities, too much government in general...
...while the ballot box was still sealed, that 75% of the votes favored the Government bloc. He was not guessing; a neat variation on the secret ballot is to cast a vote "manifestly and openly" within clear sight of everyone at the polls. The P.P.R. (Communists) had formed its zealous members into trojki (trios) who had covered the country "inducing" voters to sign a pledge stating: "I commit myself to go to the elections and give my vote to the list of the [Government] bloc parties. I am a real democrat and I am seeking a real democratic Poland...