Word: fanaticize
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The man who fanned the spark was a wiry, 63-year-old Aussie track coach named Percy Cerutty. A physical-fitness fanatic, Cerutty got Elliott to develop his deep chest by lifting weights, harden his legs by such tricks as running through ankle-deep sand and sprinting up and down...
Monaghan to Hopkins. Admiral Holloway was born in Fort Smith, Ark. in June 1898, the famous year in which the Maine blew up in Havana harbor, Commodore Dewey gave the order in Manila Bay-"You may fire when you are ready, Gridley," and the Navy moved into its new role...
Cheating at Games. An icy eye for the main chance and a fanatic's ambition were the talents Buonaparte brought to post-revolutionary France. "Can one be revolutionary enough? Marat and Robespierre, those are my saints!" he proclaimed at the Siege of Toulon. The sentiments gave him his general...
Cuba's fanatic, poorly armed rebels last week tried to smash President Fulgencio Batista with the ultimate weapon of civilian revolutions: the general strike. But Batista, a tough, wilier strongman than such fallen dictators as Argentina's Perón or Venezuela's Pérez Jim...
A Good-Matured Devil. Dermot has been a hero in the I.R.A. raids, and marked for promotion, but three things give him second thoughts. He is a "good-natured devil without hate or harm in him," and he has grievously wounded a man. Also he has discovered that his I.R.A...