Word: fanaticize
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Sports in America is less a well-shaped and readable book than a random walk on the subject by an author who may be thought of as the writing man's jogger. Besides frequent patches of straight autobiography, there are countless obligatory examples of the disguised autobiography known as...
The marchers, most of whom are Orthodox Jews, belong to Israel's Gush Emunin (Group of the Faithful), who take Jehovah's commandment from the Book of Genesis with fanatic literalness. To them, it means that Jews, as Abraham's descendants, have a God-given birthright to...
Gomez admits that she is a near fanatic about trucking. As a girl in Chicago, she played hooky from school to watch truckers unload, and at drive-in movies she usually watched the freeways instead of the films. The mother of three, she is separated from her husband, and driving...
"It came as a shock. After all, I hadn't been married since the 1940s." Thus did Actress Gloria Swanson, 76, describe her marriage proposal from Writer William Dufty, 60. Married five times (among her husbands: Actor Wallace Beery), she first met Dufty more than a decade ago when...
Sheila's teammate, Peter Mueller, 21, could also pick up some gold. A long and strong-legged product of Madison, Wis., he too is a sprinter-as well as one of the speed-skating team's coolest poker players. "Peter's a fanatic," says his fiancé...