Word: zealousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Physicians for Social Responsibility was a moribund organization devoted to detailing the medical consequences of nuclear war when Helen Caldicott, 43, then a pediatrician at Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston, took over as president in 1979. A zealous opponent of all things nuclear, Caldicott took her message all over the country, and her hellfire oratory soon attracted a following. Since then, membership in P.S.R. has grown from ten doctors to 11,000, and the Boston-based organization now boasts a 22-member staff, 85 chapters in 45 states and a $600,000 annual budget...
...that will frame a new constitution, name an interim President and prepare for national elections. But Duarte's chances, on which the Reagan Administration has staked its hopes for democracy in El Salvador, are threatened from two extremes: the far-right National Republican Alliance (ARENA), led by the zealous and charismatic Major Roberto d'Aubuisson, and the leftist guerrilla groups that are boycotting the election...
...demystified; since the shorter test was made up of old SAT questions, the vice presidents figured, why not? Fewer than 5 percent of the first wave of students took the opportunity, but it was enough to give the folks at the Board some sleepless nights. From two zealous post-test takers came successful challenges--one straightforward and stupid mistake concerning positive and negative integers, and one conundrum in three-dimensional geometry, which threw the entire Department of Access Services into a tizzy. "Pyramids," my supervisor was still groaning last summer, months after the third and fourth possible solutions...
...fifteen-minute intermission reversed roles. The previously zealous Dartmouth began to feel the burden of 11 Ivy losses without a win, and the previously lethargic Crimson began to take command...
...concludes that his witty, zealous subject is a pioneer, "the first" cutting her way through a man's world that most women were scared even to enter." As to what she is not-including the "bitch" her enemies accused her of being-Sheed is less sure. She is not "a heartless schemer," she is not a "cold climber." Certainly she is not just "Luce's woman." In the end, all he can do is shrug and quote his subject: " 'Do not defend me' is almost her heraldic motto, and I'll do my best...