Word: paranoidly
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...Richard M. Nixon said on the Jack Parr Show in February 1962, that politicians "who accept or seek support of organizations like the John Birch Society are not serving America." William F. Buckley Jr., in the National Review, revealed Welch's isolation in the conservative movement, calling The Politician " paranoid and unpatriotic drivel...
...paranoid," McManus says, laughing. "They are chasing...
There is a sensible rule in human affairs: Never make a paranoid feel like a pariah; it renders him more dangerous. The rule may apply to the Soviets. On the other hand, they have often in the past worked in a point and counterpoint: they followed their Czech invasion with the beginning of the détente process, for example, and the Cuban missile crisis with the test ban treaty...
...devoted themselves to shoring up the security of the U.S.S.R. Making the world safe for socialism has always been a euphemism for protecting Soviet interests, just as championing "wars of national liberation" has been a pretext for installing comradely governments and thwarting the U.S. in the Third World. While paranoid in motivation, such a policy is often predatory in practice. The men in the Kremlin would not feel entirely secure unless the whole world were made up of "fraternal" (i.e., satellite) or at least Finlandized countries...
...without honors, Burroughs bummed around the world, funded by a family trust. He applied to the OSS (Officer's Strategic Services) but was rejected because he had deliberately cut off a piece of his finger ("I'd once got on a Van Gogh kick"); the Army declared him a paranoid schizophrenic and thus 4-F. By 1944, with nothing else to do, Burroughs became a junkie. It was not recorded in the Alumni Monthly...