Word: extremist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final possibility is for extremist effendi reactionaries to oust Mossadegh by some coup. "If the effendi can do this." Brinton says, "They will almost certainly re-establish good relations with the West, realizing this is probably the only way they will be able to gain a sure lease on life for themselves...
...Until we find a more democratic method for gaining information on the extremist," Hall continues, "I feel it is necessary to resort to this kind of investigation...
...complete agreement with Mr. Weinberg in his opposition to buying a football team, but not in his theory that Harvard should de-emphasize soon to avoid commercialization. I am always suspicious of alternatives, of so-called "turning points"--they invariably exist more in the mind of an extremist than they do in reality. There can be no danger that Harvard football will become commercial when such a change would require revision of scholarship, admission, and academic policies which the University has strongly and consistently upheld...
Three weeks after moderate Premier Ali Razmara was assassinated last March by a member of the extremist Fadayan Islam, the old dissenter got his unconditional nationalization program through Parliament by unanimous vote. He was asked by Parliament to be Prime Minister. Though "sick and old," he accepted, bowing, as he said, to the demands of the majority...
Nehru said his measure was aimed at Communist and Hindu extremist agitation. His real targets: Atom, Current, Struggle and Blitz, four Bombay-published sensational weeklies which have consistently attacked Nehru's domestic and foreign policy, scurrilously attacked the U.S. In its next issue, Blitz compared Nehru with Hitler, said: "There is as much deterioration in the moral fiber of Nehru as there is in the moral strength of the so-called Congress [Party]. The sponsor of civil liberties in 1936 has become the wrecker of liberties...