Word: zealousness
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...gets a sense from these biographies of women as people. Despite the handicaps built into being female, they emerge as sincere, as zealous, as short-sighted, as inventive, as amusing, as self-interested, as generous, and, above all, as capable of defining themselves in terms of or against a social system over which they have no direct control, as any other human beings. There are lives of inspiration here as well as biographies which command less respect. Large numbers of women went into foreign mission work, because it was socially acceptable. Women were among the first critics...
There was evidence last week that Congress also will compromise if it has to, or even retreat. Wisconsin Democrat Henry Reuss, chairman of the House Banking Committee and a zealous critic of the policies of the Federal Reserve Board, introduced a pair of bills to make the Fed more of a "creature of Congress." One was a reaction to Chairman Arthur Burns' tight-money policy in 1974; Reuss called for increasing the money supply at an annual rate of 6% with the aim of bringing down interest rates. His second bill would establish a mandatory credit allocation program...
What points the Judges could muster were merely the result of an over-zealous, gambling 'Cliffe defense which allowed a one woman advantage to be gained by the Watch town women...
That bravura statement of Tory faith earned her a standing ovation when she preached it to the annual convention of Young Conservatives recently. But Mrs. Thatcher's zealous championship of individual initiative may not go down well in the depressed towns of the industrial north and Scotland-the two areas where the party must gain strength if it is ever to return to power...
Occupying prominent front-row seats on the rostrum at the recent National People's Congress were sixteen Chinese leaders, any one of whom could one day rule their country. They are the je-hsin-the Chinese expression for the ambitious, the zealous, the hot-hearted. Most likely to succeed: the diminutive (5 ft.) Teng Hsiao-ping, 70, who has achieved the most spectacular political comeback in Communist China's history. The congress named him first among Chou's twelve Vice Premiers, just two days after the Central Committee had made him a Vice Chairman of the Communist...