Word: zealot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Communist Nozaka, riding out the storm raised by Shimoyama's murder, was happy last week with the quiet intensity of a zealot who feels his vision taking form. Said he: "This summer will see the first wave of the crisis in Japan...
...Zealot. In Lynn, Mass., Richard Deland, who had been sentenced to jail and then put on probation for breaking into Pennyworth's Clothing Store, was caught by police next day breaking into Pennyworth's Clothing Store...
...pattern was the same across the land. Harry Truman's home state of Missouri elected RICHARD BOLLING, 32, a New Deal zealot who campaigned for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act; his home district named LEONARD IRVING, 50, a labor leader...
Zealous students had tried to get rid of the offending words, but Rivera had simply painted them back in. Two days later some other zealot sneaked to the Del Prado Hotel, scraped out the words once more, and added three long scratches to Rivera's portrait of himself as a boy. At that, the government stepped in, boarded up the dining room with three thicknesses of heavy lumber, and assigned it a 24-hour police guard...
...which counts 7,000,000 French men & women in its fold. Its spokesman is a 54-year-old Parisian named Leon Gingembre, whose name matches his personality (gingembre means ginger). Tall, thin, grey, dynamic, Gingembre, a small manufacturer of pins & needles, has bushy eyebrows and the eyes of a zealot, switches his wide smile on & off like a lamp...