Word: fanaticize
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>The aged, quiet fanatic Mitsuru Toyama, the gang boss who appears to be finally responsible for most of Japan's political assassinations for decades.
-A slurring reference to the Gordon Highlanders' part in the Battle of Tamai (1884), where the Mahdi's fanatic tribesmen momentarily broke the British defensive squares.
Pushed into the shadows by shrimpish Goebbels' new stature was whalish Hermann Göring, the Nazi best liked by industrialists and old-line Army generals. Göring and his clique reportedly believe that a peace leaving Germany with substantial victory can be managed only if something "untoward...
Hasamoto's Choice. Probably the greatest misconception about Japanese fighters is the belief that they will never surrender. It is true that when trapped they fight with a burrowing, rodent tenacity, but it is a mistake, say these officers, to credit their stubbornness to fanatic religious beliefs. It is...
Though Russell, a British earl, dislikes his title, his wife called herself Lady Russell when telephoning the Foundation. This infuriated Barnes, who carries anti-snobbery to a point of fanatic snobbism. Snorted he: "She seems to have difficulty swallowing the impressive title of Lady Russell. It evidently gets stuck just...