Word: fanaticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Not that the U.S. did not think about rescuing the hostages. In the summer of 1985, Lieut. Colonel Oliver North and Amiram Nir, the Israeli government's counterterrorism adviser, recruited 40 Lebanese Druze and paid them $1 million to help mount a rescue bid that never came off. The problem...
The four-member audience present at the start on Saturday, however, was rapt. Greer I. Gilman, who works at the Widener Library Preservation Department, was among those witnessing the start of the reading. Greer, who brought along her own dog-eared copy of the "obscure and very attractive book," said...
For much of this century, U.S. Presidents have found that dealing with the "unnatural" concepts of communism was often more difficult than confronting Soviet military power, which was measurable and matchable. Harry Truman, like most American pols, believed he could touch the soul of any man he sat down with...
In short, the use of genetic engineering and test animals, practices decried by the more fanatic critics of science, has provided a means by which Alzheimer's disease could be controlled or even cured. More aggressive promotion of this kind of news would certainly enhance the image of researchers, help...
"I'm very surprised," Fan said, "because I thought that Saddam Hussein seemed like the kind of fanatic who would never give up."