Word: zealots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Avery Brundage, a tough-hided zealot, ignored the attacks and occupied himself with one of his own favorite games-writing a new Olympic definition for the word "amateur." In its final form, it read: ". . . one whose connection with sport is and has been solely for pleasure . . . and to whom sport is nothing more than recreation without financial gain of any kind, direct or indirect...
...editor is Graham Hutton, who headed Britain's wartime Midwest Information Office in Chicago, and wrote a book called Midwest at Noon. Just before Pearl Harbor, he outshouted a hostile meeting of 300 Bundists in Chicago to get Britain's case heard. He is a zealot for both his country and the U.S.-but doesn't want his paper to be shrill. The idea for Editor Hutton's magazine had come from an American, George Oakes, 37, Oxford-educated nephew of the late New York Times Publisher Adolph S. Ochs.* Oakes, as U.S. Editor, will cable...
...season its heavy fare of discussions, digests and editorials, there will be dashes of humor and satire, columns with titles like The Little Dog Laughed and Poor Adam's Almanack. "In short," says Clarence Streit, "Freedom & Union will be neither a timid, pallid neutral nor a narrow, humorless zealot." But it will try to count for something among "influential English-reading people" the world over...