Word: zealousness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...recently came to the attention of some zealous Harvard students that Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) abolished the traditional September clambake. Under the title of “Harvard Coalition for the Return of Lobster Night,” these students have organized a group on thefacebook.com—which currently boasts more than 175 members—to raise awareness of the fact that Harvard students will forevermore be deprived of their right to share in this long-established tradition. Student outcry over this outrage was even acknowledged by each of the Undergraduate Council presidential nominees leading...
...course, it’s not always a space issue. One particularly zealous patron once presented the bar’s management with a life-sized poster of Josef Stalin...
...heading to Foxboro to see the New England Revolution’s championship game. I should have done all of these things if I were a real homegrown sports fan, and given up hope on ever becoming a part of my new hometown. But here I am, more zealous than many natives are, and I like it this...
...Catskills comic, using the stage name Jack Roy, he left the business for 12 years and sold aluminum siding. But he made a comeback in his 40s, with a new name (suggested by a club owner) and a new catchphrase, "I don't get no respect." A zealous joke writer--he would jot them down on the cardboard from his laundered shirts--he got his first big break with a spot on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1967. To avoid going on the road and leaving his kids, he borrowed money and opened his own club, Dangerfield...
...little girl is not into Sharing. She is a zealous guardian of her vast inventory of toys and games, her collection of more than 14,000 stuffed animals, even her handcrafted-from-natural-material playthings, given to her by liberals, which of course she never plays with. When another child ventures onto her turf and shows an interest in, say, one tiny stuffed llama made by Peruvian peasants from organic wool, the darling snatches it away, and her parents have to browbeat her into civility. The old man worries about this. I can visualize her as a selfish, overbearing snot...