Word: zealousness
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...dark star of Shiffer's story is Ariel Sharon; the central theme, how Sharon pressed for the invasion from the day he became Defense Minister in 1981. That is not news, of course, but Snow Ball amply documents Sharon's zealous lobbying in Cabinet meetings and among his generals. Sharon plumped for the attack, according to Shiffer, despite the fact that Israeli military intelligence concluded that the skirmishing between Palestine Liberation Organization forces and Israeli soldiers along the Lebanese border in July 1981 was provoked by the Israelis, not by the P.L.O. The Begin government, which used...
...crusade against angling was launched this winter by the Hunt Saboteurs' Association, a militant wing of the animal-rights movement. The H.S.A. is an intense, zealous group of moral commandos who have been disrupting fox and stag hunts since 1963. (Their campaign has been categorized by one neo-Wildean observer as "the implacable in search of the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible.") In the latest issue of the association's magazine, H.S.A. Committee Member Ralph Cook described Britain's 3,380,000 recreational fishermen as villains who lure "unsuspecting sentient creatures onto sharp-barbed hooks...
Some of the most zealous Buckeye fans are the band members who cap their halftime show each week. While playing the school's fight song, they march out the word Ohio. The greatest honor a band member can receive is to dot the "I" in "Ohio" during the Michigan game. "Dotting the "I" has been a goal of mine for 12 years and to get to do it at the Michigan game is just incredible," says one of this year's co-"I"-dotters senior sousaphone player Brad McDavid...
...with their class shirts singing pro-Dartmouth and anti-Harvard songs, it is surely but done to offend Harvard students, and I'm sorry if we've done so. We just come to Harvard to have some fun and support our team, but we are sometimes a bit too zealous about...
...zealous Westerner impaled himself again last week, in a way that drew angry stirrings from Congress and renewed pressure for Watt's resignation. The occasion was a breakfast meeting of some 200 U.S. Chamber of Commerce lobbyists in Washington, D.C. Watt was talking about a five-member commission that he had appointed at congressional behest to review Interior's much debated program of coal leasing on public lands, which has been called a multimillion-dollar giveaway at taxpayers' expense. Watt may have meant to extol his choice of commissioners, but what came out was something else...