Word: rabidly
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...issue contains a massive selection of letters both from opponents of intelligent design and its most flamboyant supporters. The irony is that Berlinski had serious problems with “intelligent design.” Nevertheless, his sympathetic discussion of it opened the pages of the magazine to its rabid proponents. In his willingness to take issue with “intelligent design,” he played right into the hands of its strongest supporters...
...you’ve got to come out as a peace activist, supporting the effort to rally against what is seen as a preemptive strike. And if you think that the only way Saddam Hussein will take U.S. threats seriously is through violence, then the smaller, yet no less rabid, pro-war faction on this campus will recruit...
Sold-out rinks, fierce rivalries and rabid fans define New England college hockey...
...gets a duck. If no runs are scored from a six-ball session, that's called "bowling a maiden over." With a lexicon like this, is it any wonder cricket isn't a global game? Well, hold on to your googly - it's threatening to become one. With rabid fans in Africa, South Asia, Australia and of course the U.K., where the game began, the sport has two new World Cup teams this year, growing viewership, expanded corporate sponsorships and elaborate showmanship - and it has put a decade of nasty, high-profile match fixing and betting scandals behind it. Cricket...
...politics are a separate issue from his art. I cannot say that I have read any of Paulin’s work, but my guess is that neither have the vast majority of the 100 or so who protested his appearance. Even if he were the most rabid anti-Semite in the Western hemisphere, the English department’s initial decision to cancel his appearance was irresponsible, especially when those who protested most likely hadn’t been planning to attend the event until they had read Paulin’s quotes...