Word: rabid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discharge obligations," Comrade Litvinoff, an old revolutionary who had worked with Lenin on the early Communist Iskra (Spark), who once played the fence for money stolen in a train robbery by Comrade Stalin, who was the only moderate to push his way to the top through the ranks of rabid 100 percenters...
Cambridge undergraduates are sentimentalists, rabid ones, according to a canvas of merchants in the Square made at a late hour last evening...
Robespierre did not make the Revolution, as Napoleon said, but he did "drive many people to madness who without him merely would have been fools." He followed the now-familiar course-from reformer to revolutionist. Like Lenin he transmuted a rabid hatred of his own class into a social system based (at first) on a sentimental love for the proletariat. Like both Lenin and Hitler, Robespierre knew that revolutions never stop at the point where reformers would like to freeze them. And he thoroughly understood revolutionary politics. "To dare!" he said, "is all the politics of the Revolution." His attitude...
Long famed as a rabid Anglophile, Maurois advocated stronger English-French cooperation for many months previous to the collapse of France, and believes defeat was due in large part to a lack of understanding between the two countries...
...prison cell on the outskirts of Buenos Aires last week marched Enrique P. Oses, editor of the swaggering, German-financed, openly Nazi El Pampero, enjoying a temporary freedom on bail. For months he had trumpeted rabid denunciations of the U. S., of President Roosevelt, of the Havana Conference, of Great Britain with noisy immunity. But last month he offended the Argentine sense of good taste, was whisked off to jail...