Word: zealousness
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...lost access to Iran's oil, which once provided almost 50% of their needs, the Israelis are eager for a settlement with Egypt that would allow them buyer's rights to crude pumping from the wells in Sinai and the Gulf of Suez. The Ayatullah's zealous denunciations of Israel raised fears that some of the sophisticated U.S. weaponry purchased by the Shah might eventually be lent or sold to an Arab confrontation state. As for Egypt, President Anwar Sadat has to worry about the impact of Islamic resurgence on his own discontented masses, and about...
...Reeks of apartheid," chanted a zealous bunch...
...confusion that followed, revolutionary forces entered police armories and military barracks and seized weapons. Soon thousands of civilians, including teen-agers and even children, were armed with machine guns, rifles and handguns. Dozens were killed as they fumbled with unfamiliar clips and bolts. Zealous militants set up classes in weaponry at Tehran University. Captured army trucks filled with newly armed youths went careening through the city. When a woman supervisor of a Tehran orphanage told her young charges to get rid of their guns before they got hurt, one boy snapped, "Why should we hand them over to the mullahs...
...S.R.O. audience was Paul Pasquarosa, a devotee of "The Way," a zealous anti-Trinitarian group, who says that Patrick slashed at him repeatedly with a straight-edged razor at a December deprogramming in Massachusetts. As a result, Patrick, who has served time elsewhere, has been charged with assault with a dangerous weapon...
...mentioned the Soviets only obliquely. As the week progressed, however, he sharply escalated his attacks. During a visit to Washington's National Gallery, for example, he startled 1,000 guests by saying that the "danger of a new world war" was increasing because of the Kremlin's "zealous pushing of global strategy for world domination." Soon, with no objections from his hosts to restrain him, Teng began turning more and more of his public appearances into forums for assaults on the Soviets, though he took care to do so only when top U.S. officials were not present...