Word: zealousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprise rescue of Mrs. Kearns, a Times Square regular, was accomplished with the aid of a police device that some zealous civil libertarians call "Big Brother" and that Police Lieut. Ira Berg describes as the "good shepherd tending his sheep." It is a TV eye that relentlessly scans round the clock for any sign of crime. One camera sweeps the Times Square area; two other stationary cameras provide a picture of the south-side of 45th Street west of Broadway, which is a big street for theaters, and a fourth is aimed at Shubert Alley paralleling Broadway...
After watching his team lose, 5-2, to Penn earlier this season, one St. Lawrence hockey fan described the game as one that St. Lawrence shouldn't have lost, and characterized the Penn squad as "not big, but scrappy, sort of like an over-zealous high school team. They just...
...word of caution should be inserted for those not quite as gung-ho about Thanksgiving football rivalries: a number of minor incidents involving over-zealous and perhaps over-indulging fans have resulted in mobs from one school carrying off fans from their rivals and dumping them off the top of the stands. Well, boys will be boys. Also, you might want to park your car a good distance from the stadium, for there have been a few isolated rock-throwing incidents reported...
...reject the cynical view that politics is inevitably or even usually a dirty business. Let us not allow what a few over-zealous people did in Watergate to tar the reputation of the millions of ded icated Americans who fought hard but clean for the candidates of their choice...
...born on a hot, violent night in Chicago in 1968, when distracted delegates to the Democratic National Convention voted to reform their party during the next four years-and unwittingly bound themselves to what in effect became ethnic, sexual and youth quotas. Dominated by a staff of zealous reformers, the resulting commission succeeded in passing a series of sweeping new rules favorable to women, youth and blacks virtually under the unsuspecting noses of many party regulars...