Word: fanaticized
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Influential American Jews eagerly accepted this version. Argues Chicago Businessman Gary Ratner: "It wasn't terrorism for terrorism's sake. They were trying to create a country, not destroy it." Critics were rebuffed. Among them is Rabbi Arnold Wolf, Jewish chaplain at Yale and national chairman of Breira...
Few Senators have more reason to want a cure for cancer than Massachusetts' Edward Kennedy. In 1973 his son Teddy, now 15, had a leg amputated because of a bone malignancy. But last week, presiding over a crowded, acrimonious Senate subcommittee hearing on Laetrile, Kennedy showed little patience with...
However, the geographer's discipline and intellect turn out to mask a fanatic's zeal. He imposes an implacable martial law and calmly uses torture to recruit troops from the countryside. Even his eccentric respect for the humanity of the natives becomes a form of arrogance. He enjoys...
The play would be a smash hit if the war in Vietnam was still being fought and if Harvard students were still agonizing over decisions about whether to fight or flee to Canada as conscientious objectors. For Thoreau is jailed because he objects to a white supremacist war being carried...
The heart of the capital was under siege. Everywhere, it seemed, was the wail of sirens, snarled traffic, milling crowds, police marksmen poised on rooftops, swarms of reporters interviewing one another in the glare of floodlights. Extra guards were posted at Government buildings; on the Hill each member of Congress...