Word: zealousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group, the Sabras tend to dismiss or be uninterested in the grand visions of Zionism; yet they are zealous about the fate of their homeland. They tend to be more tolerant and respectful toward the Arabs of Israel than their parents are. In the right-wing extremist group called "Land of Israel," which would like to expel Arabs from all Israeli territory, there is said to be not a single native-born Israeli...
Israel's Law of Return offers automatic citizenship to any Jew who comes there to live. Some of the recent returnees, however, are hardly what Israeli legislators had in mind: zealous young Jews for Jesus (TIME, June 12), whose purpose in coming to the Promised Land is to engage in aggressive Christian evangelism. Some even passed out New Testament tracts at the Wailing Wall last year...
...remodeled concerns recruiting. I would like to stress that no longer does the rationalization exist that a Harvard education/degree is worth four years of structured misery. Yes gentlemen, it is a misery to a devoted athlete, professionally talented, to come to Harvard expecting what he was told by zealous alumni to be true (that Harvard has a great basketball program) only to find it a myth. To him, a Harvard degree means giving up his life-long, first love, of basketball, and as I have stated before, an athlete should never be forced to make that decision once...
Rome uneasily dispatches a zealous young priest to correct the situation. He is a tough-minded, chillingly efficient young man named James Kinsella, who has been schooled in ecumenical diplomacy and trained in the dubious art of using power to revolutionary ends. Presenting the superchurch's problem to the old abbot, a man named Tomas O'Malley, Kinsella assures him smoothly that it is not a matter of heresy -merely one of creating "a uniform posture...
...pouring energy and money into a series of standard liberal causes, from blacks in the South, to the campaign against capital punishment (on the night of Caryl Chessman's execution, he picketed San Quentin), to the fishing rights of the Puyallup Indians of the Northwest. He became a zealous and outspoken critic of the war in Viet Nam. In the later years of the 1960s, he devoted an increasing amount of time to his children, both in California and in Tetiaroa, the South Sea atoll of 13 islands that he bought in 1966. In Tetiaroa he also...