Word: zealousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...modern slalom course, on which the skier executes all types of turns around markers set up in the snow. The Harrow-and Oxford-educated sportsman wrote a galaxy of volumes on skiing and such subjects as Communism, which he abhorred, mountaineering, travel and Catholicism, to which he was a zealous convert...
...summer air were, no doubt, Ray Brown's "Is There Anything Still There," and Duke Ellington's stock favorite "Satin Doll." Brown's eloquent tune featured a deep sax solo in the Coleman Hawkins vein by Jim Scales, who unfortunately had to battle a couple of over-zealous trumpeters to be heard. "Satin Doll," a likely homage to the Duke's 75th birthday, started out slow with the trombones dominating. But Steve Sack's alto sax solo quickly asserted itself, and brought the number into focus...
...journalism has been the target as well as the generator of criticism. It has been accused of being first too complacent and then too alarmist about Viet Nam, of being insufficiently sensitive and too gullible concerning the counterculture of the '60s, of being first casual and then over-zealous about Watergate. Such indictments have come from within and without the craft, often at a pitch intended to shatter glass...
...course, are not alone in paying homage to their wartime dead. American travel agents fly nostalgic World War II G.I.s to Pearl Harbor commemorations every December. But as with much else in the land of rising statistics, the Japanese effort appears to be much bigger, or at least more zealous. Last year about 6,000 Japanese toured World War II battlegrounds. A Pan Am jumbo jet last month brought 300 pilgrims home from Saipan, Guam and Tinian; another 400 will soon be leaving on a cruise ship for the burning sands of Iwo Jima, where no fewer than...
While some sophisticated knowledge of botany is required, most of the plant doctors' cures consist of applying rudimentary good sense. Often they only have to keep overly zealous owners from asphyxiating their plants with overdoses of affection, most commonly in the form of too much water or fertilizer...