Word: extremist
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...they must have forgotten, for, if not, they would recognize Senator McCarthy's telegram crusade for what it is. Like Ponzi, the Senator advertised of the big things to come. Like Ponzi, he invested a little something--the small effort required to elicit extremist telegrams from roughly .0002 percent of the nation. And like Ponzi, he now sits back while the public blows up this gaggle of telegrams into political support...
Read is certainly no bomb-throwing extremist. For him, anarchism is a "pie in the sky." He uses it only as a guide to action. In every practical decision he would follow the course leading to a greater degree of government decentralization...
...their mold. And this was a century of shattering change . . . Over such a span of time, the only perfectly consistent institution was a dead institution. And the Republican Party was-and is-very much alive ... It helped mold each age and was itself molded by each age-the extremist party in one day, 'the champion of something called 'normalcy' in another...
When Premier David Ben-Gurion set out to draft women into the Israel army four years ago, extremist leaders forced him to exempt Orthodox girls. Soon 30% of all girls called up blithely claimed to be Orthodox. Last year Ben-Gurion wrote a new bill which would draft Orthodox girls for work on farms, in hospitals and in immigrant camps, instead of the army. The new bill would not force ultra-Orthodox girls to wear the "unmaidenly" Israeli women's army uniforms, and would let them return to their own homes at night. Moreover, they would not be controlled...
...exploitation and suppression by the British occupation, ex-King and their clique. That is why the main objective set forth by our revolution of July 23 last has been to relieve the Egyptian people of such oppression, and to raise and improve their standards, thus eliminating the dangers of extremist ideologies...