Word: monomaniac
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...sticks to a doctor-ordered diet, painful for a man who devours food with Hungarian gusto. But a damaged constitution has not damped his crusader's fervor. The late great Nuclear Physicist Enrico Fermi once said to him, with affectionate exasperation: "In my acquaintance, you are the only monomaniac with several manias." Princeton Physicist John Wheeler, who worked on both the A-bomb and the H-bomb, put it more truly. The essence of Teller's character, Wheeler said recently, is that he "cares very much...
WILLIAM WYLER Hollywood 54 in '55 SIR: MY SINCERE THANKS TO BORIS CHALIAPIN AND TIME [DEC. 27] FOR A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS PRESENT . . . POSTSCRIPT AS TO MY BEING A "CHEERFUL MONOMANIAC"-MAYBE so. BUT THERE'S ONE THING OF WHICH I AM SURE; I WAS ONLY...
Like most self-educated men, Disney pulled himself up from nowhere by grabbing the tail of a runaway idea and hanging on for dear life. Even now, in middle life (he is 54) he seems to most acquaintances a "cheerful monomaniac." He works at least 14 hours a day, never takes a vacation ("I get enough vacation from having a change of troubles")-though he does have a hobby, a miniature train named Lilly Belle (after his wife), and a half-mile of track to run it on. Lacking a formal education-he quit school in the ninth grade-Walt...
...Girdler [Chairman of Republic Steel] is a heavily armed monomaniac with murderous tendencies, who has gone berserk. Potter [William C. Potter,* chairman of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co.] and Grace [President Eugene Grace of Bethlehem Steel] have turned him loose upon the unarmed steel workers...
London bobbies are killed like flies before two clever amateurs-who work with Scotland Yard because one wants to marry the Chief Commissioner's daughter-most ingeniously trap the monomaniac and his big black diary...