Word: zealotism
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...pattern was the same across the land. Harry Truman's home state of Missouri elected RICHARD BOLLING, 32, a New Deal zealot who campaigned for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act; his home district named LEONARD IRVING, 50, a labor leader...
Zealous students had tried to get rid of the offending words, but Rivera had simply painted them back in. Two days later some other zealot sneaked to the Del Prado Hotel, scraped out the words once more, and added three long scratches to Rivera's portrait of himself as a boy. At that, the government stepped in, boarded up the dining room with three thicknesses of heavy lumber, and assigned it a 24-hour police guard...
...which counts 7,000,000 French men & women in its fold. Its spokesman is a 54-year-old Parisian named Leon Gingembre, whose name matches his personality (gingembre means ginger). Tall, thin, grey, dynamic, Gingembre, a small manufacturer of pins & needles, has bushy eyebrows and the eyes of a zealot, switches his wide smile on & off like a lamp...
...system. Convicts and city materials went into private jobs; plain citizens were jugged for protesting. When Fleming, disgusted with the local scene, opened up on the Crackers, even his friends told him he was crazy to stick his neck out. He wrote, he spoke, he agitated, he became a zealot. In 1943 he published Colonel Effingham's Raid, a Book-of-the-Month novel whose harsh kidding of the Cracker Party and its dirty devices was lost on that organization's nonreading leaders. Last year Fleming's sowing reaped a triumphant harvest: the voters of Augusta kicked...
Corinne Seeds looks like a mild-mannered schoolmarm. She is a schoolmarm, and she doesn't believe in flaying naughty children alive; but she is doughty rather than diffident. She once taught Mexican women in a boxcar; and she has a zealot's faith in the wonders of progressive education. Ever since she began putting her theories into practice in the University Elementary School, the rolling, residential community of Westwood Hills, Los Angeles, Calif, has hardly known a day of peace...