Word: fanaticized
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Zealous, he has ordered that in school hours they must all wear shirts as black as his. Fanatic, he commanded last week that every day they shall recite three new commandments, brief, pagan and patriotic.
Now many a Fundamentalist can irk men of reason by simply opposing steadfast faith to inquisitive logic. But Dr. Straton's dogma is not merely steadfast; it is wild and violent. His answers to reasonable inquiry would irritate a St. Francis of Assisi. Dr. Witherspoon Dodge of Atlanta, mild-mannered...
"This is the picture of an empire air route program upon which I ask for your advice and cooperation. I do not believe that I am either a fanatic or a visionary in asking your support for these schemes. If they prove successful they may give a physical unity to...
*In 1859 John Brown, white man from "Bleeding Kansas," felt that he was destined to free Negro slaves. He must have a citadel. So, with only 18 men, he captured the U. S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Va., and was in turn captured by Robert E. Lee. John...
Devils turned out to have depth and determination. It tells of a buried community in the cotton fields and how the Christian religion reached them all awry and drove the prettiest daughter of the village to delirium and death. The instrument of the Word's distortion is a ranting fanatic...