Word: zealousness
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...down at these new affects, and never settles down to put her surgeon's tools to work. Sparked by a childlike fascination for film history and change, she tugs at our sleeves and blurts out "look at that, do you realize what's happening?" But sadly, like a zealous child, she underestimates the capacity of yesterday's radical departures to become today's banalities...
...breach of conduct or an "offense," you are punished and pay the price. At West Point, the system, in addition to having the built-in potential for abuse also has the built-in mechanism for self-destruction pointed out in your article. It is somewhat analogous to the zealous Red Guard self-destruction syndrome which became a part of the Cultural Revolution in Red China. Systems like these are born in fear and inadequacy and ultimately lead to abuses, temptations and recriminations...
...presidential nomination and his election victory over Herbert Hoover; armed with ample power and patronage as both national Democratic boss and Postmaster General, he masterminded an even bigger win for F.D.R. in 1936 against Alf Landon. After that, Old Pol Farley fell out with the patrician F.D.R. and his zealous New Dealer's, and in 1940 he quit his Cabinet and national party posts, suggesting that F.D.R.'s decision to run for an unprecedented third term had foreclosed his own ambitions for high elective office. Farley became head of Coca-Cola's foreign operations but never lost...
Andersen was a zealous upholder of the code (which states that "a cadet will not lie, cheat or steal, or tolerate anyone who does" and which demands expulsion as the sole penalty). With West Point in the midst of the worst cheating scandal in its 174 years, the seniors who won their second lieutenants' bars last week were endorsing a strict construction of the code...
...brought about the epochal 1964 Civil Rights Act. In an attempt to correct centuries of injustice toward minorities, the bill banned discrimination in education, employment, voting. But the same law^ Glazer reminds readers, prohibited busing or preferential hiring to achieve racial balance. Not long after it was signed, however, zealous bureaucrats and activist judges began adopting these very devices to attain a mathematically precise racial distribution...