Word: fanaticize
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In the late 19205 when German Communism was still in its adolescence, sly. ruthless Walter Ulbricht and scrappy, fanatic Franz Dahlem were two of its brightest stars and, hence, bitter rivals. Both were sent to take part in the Spanish civil war as political commissars. Both were soon ordered home...
At the heart of all this furor were four fanatic young men, the band of anti-Communist Rumanians who in February 1955 electrified the world by seizing Red Rumania's Bern legation and holding it for 42 hours before they surrendered to a small army of Swiss police backed...
Harassed on all sides, Lacoste struck out at all sides. He even potshotted the U.S. The rebels, he said, recognizing "they cannot possibly win by military action," are now falling back on the hope that "international opinion or action by foreign countries" will impose a solution on France. He denied...
Father Hugh Halton, "fiery" Princeton chaplain to Roman Catholic students, is presented in your editorial as "probably the biggest loser in the whole row," because he delivered "near-fanatic harangues" and received "his first public rebuke--from undergraduates at large." Not only is "at large" left unelaborated, but "near-fanaticism" is not evident in Father Halton's speech or, surprisingly, that of Alger Hiss, both appearing in the May 4th issue of U.S. News and World Report...
4.) Father Hugh Halton, Princeton chaplain to Roman Catholic students, lost any effectiveness he may have had as a critic of the University. His near-fanatic harangues on the Hiss controversy, which he seized upon as an issue by which to further his impassioned attack on the administration, have offended...