Word: zealousness
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...Bush team overreached, one nagging question is, Why? A defense expert who has spent 20 years watching Republicans argue about foreign policy from the inside believes the hard-liners' agenda isn't about Iraq or even oil. It's simply that the most zealous defenders of America's role in the world are congenitally disposed to overreact to every threat--which leads them to read too much into the intelligence. "They came in with a world view, and they looked for things to fit into it," says Lawrence Korb, who served in the Reagan Pentagon and now works...
Alfred E. Vellucci, the former Cambridge mayor notorious for his zealous feuds with Harvard, died Oct. 17, 2002 in Cambridge City Hospital...
There is, for example, no monument to Anne Hutchinson, the zealous Puritan woman whose challenges to the Puritan clergy of Boston were a large part of the inspiration behind the founding of a college in Cambridge...
Margaret Thatcher arrived at her North London constituency early, in good time for glad-handing and a last bit of publicity. But it was well into the following morning when the last paper ballots from every village and shire came in: the gutsy politician of the zealous right had routed Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan and smashed the gender barrier to become Britain's first female...
...spite of the same two teams tossing the league championship back and forth and the absence of any athletic scholarships (and, some might argue, real significance), they are zealous in their faith. Ivy League basketball is their religion, and www.ivybasketball.com is their temple...