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Word: fanaticism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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To observers of the Arab world, it was no great surprise that Iraqi diplomatic missions figured so centrally in the bloody raids. Iraq's fanatic Baathist government rejects any negotiations whatsoever with Israel. Baghdad was annoyed when the P.L.O. in May decided to suspend its Lebanon-based military operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The New Blood Feud: Arab vs. Arab | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

"I am not a fanatic or an absolutist, declared Farber during his contempt trial before Judge Theodore Trautwein. But, he added, "I believe the First Amendment means what it says about freedom of the press." Editorialized the Times: "A court, no matter how benign, is to us an arm of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Piercing a Newsman's Shield | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

Yet for all the breathlessness and hyperbole in the British press ? "We could get baby farms, mass-produced kids, 1984 six years early!" exclaimed London Daily Express Editor Derek Jameson? the Brown venture fell far short of ushering in a Brave New World. Like countless other women with fertility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Test-Tube Baby | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

Meanwhile, it seems that all of the Boston Lobsters, that fun-lovin', division-leadin' crew, were finally overhauled by a bevy of fanatic chefs during Wimbledon. Alas. The only escapee was Martina Navratilova, who, we are happy to re-report, caught the women's singles title over Chris "Baseline Machine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTS | 7/14/1978 | See Source »

The ascendancy of the fanatic Marxist Ismail, who has boasted of defeating all "enemies of the revolution" with his People's Militia, strengthens Moscow's hand in the Arab world's only avowedly Marxist state. Aden has replaced the Somali port of Berbera as the chief Russian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE YEMENS: Murder and Menace | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

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