Word: fundamentalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lost it all in the last big crash, Granville ran an investment advice service for those who dealt in postage stamps during the 1950s. He moved up to play with the big boys in the '60s, working for E.F. Hutton until his brash unorthodoxy began to clash with the fundamentalist corporate ethic of the firm...
There are, I am told, other fundamentalist or back-to-basic religious groups around Harvard--among white Protestants and white charismatic Catholics, and perhaps among some white Muslims and Jews. It would be a bold undertaking to use the Seymour Society as the cutting-edge of a back-to-basic renascence among religiously inclined Harvard students, cutting across the racist, sexist, and ethnocentric boundaries that have for so long distorted the civilizing force of religious values in American life...
...major Syrian accusation was that Jordan has been "arming, training and financing" extremist elements of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, which wants to topple Assad's ten-year-old regime. Syrian television recently reported that Jordanian Prime Minister Mudar Badran had even visited Muslim Brotherhood camps near Irbid on the Jordanian side of the 240-mile common frontier. Damascus further charged that the Muslim Brotherhood, operating from clandestine camps in Jordan, has been able to launch a two-year campaign of assassinations and bombings within Syria. King Hussein has firmly denied the Syrian allegations, although he has legalized political activities...
Between extremist evolutionists, with their insistence on a materialistic blind-chance explanation, and extreme fundamentalist creationists, with their insistence on a first-chapter-of-Genesis explanation, there is not much room left for us Christians who years ago acknowledged the truth of evolution...
Meanwhile: the spectre of nuclear devastation, overpopulation, finite energy sources, apartheid--these and a handful of other world conditions made it difficult for the unsaved to accept the Simple Plan. And those whom the Majority might regard as the pseudo-saved--people who called themselves Christian but not Fundamentalist--had accepted the simple plan but were looking for the Next Step. There was something unsettling about knowing that you were saved but that millions of little kids were starving to death around the world...