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Word: fanaticisms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even after the German armies capitulated in World War II, a fanatic Wehrmacht general, commanding a force of last-ditch Nazis, held out against the Russians in a Bohemian mountain redoubt. Field Marshal Ferdinand Schorner, 62, had been named by Hitler to succeed him as commander-in-chief of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST GERMANY: The Devil's General | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

This second myth was killed by the censure vote. To a man, the Democrats voted against McCarthy. Their liberal wing from the northern cities was utterly unterrified by the fact that many of McCarthy's most fanatic followers are Democrats. The Democratic liberals were forced by the vote to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: A Myth Exploded | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

Such surrenders were made possible only because the Neo-Destour. Tunisia's leading independence party, agreed to the French plan. Most of the men who went out into the mountains with French officers at their sides were members of NeoDestour, seeking to prove that though they want independence they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TUNISIA: Surrender of the Outlaws | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

The fanatic Moslem Brotherhood used to be the terror of Egypt; it murdered two Premiers and a police chief, and created shivers of concern among British commanders in the Canal Zone. But last week in a small, second-floor Cairo courtroom, ordinary Egyptians openly laughed at the Brotherhood as, one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Snapping the Trap | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

For today's college football has been left a strange legacy. It has been set aside from the rest of the athletic program by an almost fanatic following on the part of undergraduates, alumni, and local fans. This difference is evidenced numerically by the 40,000 people who watched the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Limiting the Game | 12/2/1954 | See Source »

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