Word: fanaticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cuba's fanatic, poorly armed rebels last week tried to smash President Fulgencio Batista with the ultimate weapon of civilian revolutions: the general strike. But Batista, a tough, wilier strongman than such fallen dictators as Argentina's Perón or Venezuela's Pérez Jim...
RIFLE in hand, a Cuban army sentry stopped the car carrying TIME Contributing Editor Sam Halper toward the rebel-held Sierra Maestra, peered inside, searched the trunk. Said Halper: "I put on an act of lighting a cigar, said nothing, and waved to the soldiers as we went on." Closer...
Well after dark, in a thundering rain, the rebels' jeep stopped in front of a big, wooden-walled barn with a palm-thatched roof. I hurried inside and blinked at an extraordinary scene: an old woman tending grandchildren, rebel troops milling around, guitarists strumming, and under a dim kerosene...
For Old Revolutionary Prestes, black-eyed, bony and frail at 60, working in the open will be a novelty. More than 30 years ago, as a young army officer, he led a column of 1,500 fanatic men who staged a legendary 16,000-mile retreat through Brazil's...
"Esperanto speakers are not related to fanatic groups like vegetarians," Fuller declared to his class. He claimed that the language is now, according to a conservative estimate, spoken by about two million people, "or by eight million figuring optimistically."