Word: zealousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...zealous environmentalists, ski-area developers have become abominable snowmen. Those beautiful patterns of milk-white ski runs cut into the side of a mountain seem to be networks of disfiguring scars in the view of some critics. Increasingly, they charge that ski developments cause soil erosion, leak sewage into rivers and streams and lead to the rise of tacky pizza parlors, motels and gas stations. Colorado conservationists recently played a major part in the successful campaign to ban the 1976 Winter Olympics from the state. The California Supreme Court earlier this year slowed construction of high-rise ski condominiums...
...shape a scene but punctuate it. Addled after submitting to a quick series of police mug shots, Di Noi is asked for his "other profile" and hastily turns the back of his head to the camera. Protesting his innocence during the cell-block rebellion he is brained by a zealous guard, and shrugs in bewilderment even as he falls to the ground. After Di Noi is finally acquitted and released, still fearful and partly insane, he is waiting with his family at the border to try to begin the vacation again. He plunges his fingers around in a cigarette pack...
DURING a political rally in Argentina in 1954, one of Juan Domingo Perón's followers questioned the dictator about his health. Before Perón could reply, a zealous aide shouted, "We'll have Perón for a hundred years!" Added el Líder himself: "You'll have Perón for five thousand years, for even though I disappear, my doctrine will continue...
What lessons in hindsight does Halberstam learn? The "national security" policymakers, he concludes, have constituted a club, a dangerously self-perpetuating Establishment, an inner Government confident of its expertise and zealous to guard itself by secrecy and quick retaliation from the democratic uses of criticism...
Allende replied to the wave of strikes by extending the "state of emergency"-a measure short of martial law -to 21 of Chile's 25 provinces. One thousand trucks were confiscated and five union leaders arrested. Zealous carabineros dispersed strollers on city streets with tear gas or with powerful water cannons that Chileans called guanacos (after a camel-like animal that spits when it is angered...