Word: fanaticized
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Peter Grahame Fletcher, an old Dover College boy, had spent his U.S. year at New Jersey's Peddie School. He preferred the English scheme of sorting the bright boys and the bumbleheads into separate forms to the American method of lumping them into an "intellectually mediocre" alloy. Fletcher considered...
Many an Argentine scoffed-discreetly. Only fanatic Peronistas took the plot seriously. John Griffiths seemed to be both amused and bewildered at his new prominence across the Plata. Five months ago, he had been jailed in B.A. on Peronistas' charges that he had fomented a bank strike in Argentina...
Along the roads it was hard to tell that there had been fighting. Farmers tilled fields, animals grazed, peasants slept under trees. Only at rare intervals did we see a few dead bodies. Here & there was an overturned Hyderabad truck. At the village of Homnabad, the Indian army showed off...
Out of the travail of 400 million in the Indian subcontinent have come two symbols-a man of love and a man of hate. Last winter the man of nonviolence, Gandhi, died violently at the hands of an assassin. Last week the man of hate, Mohamed Ali Jinnah, at 71...
"This town of Boston is become almost a Hell upon Earth, a City full of Lies and Murders and Blasphemies; a dismal Picture and Emblem of Hell." It is Cotton Mather, the fanatic 17th Century preacher, talking.