Word: rabidly
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...sting in his right seemed to have been dulled. For the next six rounds it was a boxer's fight, a brilliant display of punch and counter without knockdowns or clinches. After that, it was all Gavilan. The judges' decision, while hordes of Gavilan's rabid rooters crashed through police barriers into the ring, with Cuban flags flying: unanimous for Gavilan...
...there are also dangers inherent in the General's removal. He may now return to the United States as a martyr, to be exhibited daily by the Hearst press and the rabid opponents of the Administration's Asian policy. His removal from the post of Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers will give the Russians an opportunity to barge into the Japanese problem...
...could put college and school administrations in an impossible position. It might intimidate administrators into firing large numbers of capable instructors for fear that someone like a disgruntled graduate or a rabid politician would complain to the attorney general and set off a highly publicized investigation. College and school presidents would probably play it safe and academic freedom would become in fact what Dorgan called it on April 2, "a hackneyed phrase...
...many Iranians, especially students, have adopted the Russian point of view. When North Koreans were defeating the Western "imperialists," Iranians were jubilant. Even the country's leaders, who have the most to gain from American support, have found it more expedient to muffle discontent at home by a rabid nationalism aimed against the United States and Great Britain. America's attempts to raise the Iranian living standard failed because no agreement could be reached with corrupt and extravagant local officials...
...latest instalment on our political debt came two weeks ago with a rumpus which left pro-American Premier Razmara dead, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company almost nationalized, and Iranian nationalism more rabid than ever. The United States policy of supporting any government that opposed Communism had backfired completely...