Word: fanaticize
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This woke up that lion-hearted lawyer, President Jose Antonio de Aguirre y Lecube of the Basques. If a devout Catholic and a communist fanatic could be rolled into one, the result might approximate President de Aguirre. He keeps a tall ebony-&-gold crucifix on his desk but pounds this...
Thinking over the anti-U. S. scurrility which boiled up in the State-controlled German press last fortnight after New York's Mayor LaGuardia had called Hitler a "brown-shirted fanatic" (TIME, March 15), the wife of New York's famed Rabbi Stephen S. Wise last week began...
Graduating from Yale Theological Seminary in 1833, redheaded, fanatic John Noyes barnstormed New England preaching "Perfectionism," collected a colony of 38 men and 53 women to start off the Oneida venture, which began in a log house in 1847. Four years later membership had jumped to 205 (peak membership: 300...
Cause of Germany's paroxysm was found to be a proposal by Mayor LaGuardia that adjoining a proposed "temple of tolerance" at New York's 1939 World's Fair there be erected "a chamber of horrors" containing a figure of "that brown-shirted fanatic who is now...
In Cawnpore, India, a fanatic Hindu carpenter prostrated himself at the feet of the Goddess of the Kali Temple, cut off his tongue, offered it in exchange for wisdom.