Word: fetishizing
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...nine, Rodell had praise for Justices Black and Douglas, whom he termed "the Court's only first class judicial statesmen." But he labelled Justice Frankfurter "the Emily Post of the Supreme Court" because of his "fetish for procedural issues" and opined-that "any student on the Harvard Law Review would make a better justice than Justice Burton...
...Mecca welcomed them all; the city contained the shrines of 360 deities. In addition to the regular business traffic, Mecca was host to pilgrims from all Arabia worshiping at these shrines. One of them was the Kaaba, a little building housing a stone which was venerated as a fetish sacred to Allah. To his fellow magnates of Mecca, Mohammed proposed nothing less than the sole worship of Allah and the abolition of all other gods...
...North Koreans were defiant enough to transgress even this restricted legal loop. The U.N. instantly reacted. But when Mac Arthur was chasing the Korean Reds toward the 38th parallel, an outcry arose that showed how deeply the border-crossing fetish had sunk into the Western mind. MacArthur, it was held, would in become an aggressor if he crossed the parallel in pursuit of the criminal force...
...about as plain as a Capone mobster's funeral, and almost as expensive. He became a lieutenant and acting captain, and quickly fell into the pattern which Chicagoans expect of their police captains-a rich man's life on a copper's pay. He made a fetish of wearing a hat and, as his hair began to disappear in later years, he even kept one on while eating in the classiest restaurants. "I'd rather be caught dead than without a hat," Drury often explained...
...League, Journalist Streit came to one basic conclusion : it had been done in by pride, self-interest and jealousy, in short by unbridled nationalism. He conceded that nationalism could also be a matter of enlightened self-interest, patriotism, independence, other good things. But when sovereignty became a fetish, he thought, it produced more evil than good. Nationalism, he decided, was the poison that had killed peace...