Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Palestinian version. That morning, Faisal Husseini and a few thousand other Palestinians had gathered on the Temple Mount to defend the Islamic shrine from a group of ultra-nationalist Jews, called the Temple Mount Faithful, that planned to lay a cornerstone on the site to prepare for a third Jewish temple. Despite an Israeli court order banning the group from the site, Muslims were unnerved. As rumors spread that the Jewish radicals were approaching, Palestinians began shouting slogans. When police replied with tear gas, Palestinians retaliated with stones. The police then charged onto the Temple Mount, went berserk and gunned...
...judge read the verdict in the Moscow courtroom last week, the defendant erupted. "I'm ready to die for Russia," yelled Konstantin Smirnov- Ostashvili, 54, leader of a faction of Pamyat, the ultra-right, Russian nationalist movement. "It's all a lie!" Unfazed, the judge sentenced Smirnov-Ostashvili to two years of hard labor for shouting anti-Semitic threats at a meeting of liberal writers last January...
...more WASPy the name of the fellowship, the better. Fellowships with ultra-WASPy names were all created a long time ago by wealthy patrician families, who made them extremely generous since they'd be won by one of their children anyway...
...first Harvard undergraduate to commend the Organization for the Advancement of Sexual Minorities (ORGASM) for its crusade to "cover the campus with positive sex-positive imagery," and thereby show the world that Harvard is not going to be intimidated by a small cabal of ultra-conservative facists attempting to censor art that they deem "pornographic" or "immoral...
...cannot allow the Review to ruin my life any longer, it is tearing my family apart," President C. Tyler-White yesterday told the governing board of Dartmouth's ultra conservative student journal. Tyler White distributed copies of his written statement to the student body...