Word: fanaticism
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With the Red Army's latest coup, Japanese authorities fear that other fanatic groups will intensify their activities. The police already claim to have evidence that terrorists will try to block Emperor Hirohito's scheduled October visit to the U.S.
He was a gumshoe in patent-leather footwear, a master of misstatement, a helpless fanatic for crème de cacao, soft, sweet chocolate and Russian cigarettes. Still, Hercule Poirot, famed Belgian-born detective-and literary creation of Mystery Writer Dame Agatha Christie, 84 -never failed to solve a case...
Great Stress. The Yard gets on to him and becomes duly alarmed. The I.R.A. is even more desperate, however. If Hennessy's plot succeeds, the group will be discredited the world over. Pursued on all sides, nearly run to ground, the fanatic Hennessy is totally alone.
The workers' councils, which now share in the running of big and small business, have badly crippled output. They have arbitrarily called strikes and in the fanatic saneamento (literally, "cleaning up") campaign, have purged from their plants all those accused of the undefined crime of "economic sabotage." Managers have...
Give Alms. The son of A. Willis Robertson, U.S. Senator from Virginia for two decades, Pat graduated from Yale Law School, failed his bar exam and went into the electronics business. Raised a Southern Baptist, he was restless and unhappy until at 26 he decided to become a minister and...