Word: fanaticize
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But unfortunately Williams spends very little time on what he knows best; he has axes to grind and grudges to settled, and he can't seem to forget them for much more than a page at a time. He tells his version of air power's growth with a animus...
The German army, according to the former lieutenant, possesses a fanatic loyalty to its leader. The most striking reality, continued Guy, is the German youth whose only exclamation is "Heil Hitler." When captured, they remain silent, staring into the distance as though they notice nothing.
As the climax of a life devoted to battling Demon Rum, he introduced the law that became the 18th Amendment, helped the tall, droop-mustached Minnesota zealot, Andrew J. Volstead, write the Prohibition enforcement law. But as saloons became speakeasies and gangsters turned to bootleggers, Volstead got all the knocks...
Benito talked a great deal about how gloriously the lion-hearted Fascisti had departed from Libya and Greece. It was all the fault of the British for attacking too soon, said he. Besides, Italy had been fighting in Ethiopia and Spain. Besides and besides, Italy was pretty brave to fight...
The purpose of this letter is not to justify aid to Britain, but to protest against the attitude exemplified by Mr. Young's letter, an attitude of closed mind and irrational name-calling. Behind such screaming words as "propaganda," "warmongering," "fanatic," "hate"' bloodshed"' and such reassuring words as "realistic", "farsighted...