Word: zealots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MINISTRY OF MORALS. Women in Saudi Arabia who drive cars or show too much leg are routinely persecuted by the mutawain, the country's dreaded "morals police." Now non-Muslim women are rejoicing at a rumor that a U.S. servicewoman pulled her 9-mm sidearm on a mutawain zealot who tried to stop her from driving a military vehicle near the Dhahran air base. The mutawain officer has reportedly been suspended...
...fries at fast-food outlets. While the potatoes are innocent enough, the leading chains have traditionally deep fried them in oil that contains beef tallow. That substance contains cholesterol and saturated fat, both considered archenemies of the cardiovascular system. Phil Sokolof of Omaha, a wealthy businessman and health-food zealot, has been leading a public campaign to urge the franchises to stop using saturated fat to cook their fries...
...once again, I have become a born-again zealot, convinced by the same tireless argument that we won't know it when the Messiah does actually arrive. Yes, I have once again been swept up in the great Red Sox pennant chase. Back, yet another time, for more abuse...
...rescue mission is not through," declared antiabortion zealot Randall Terry, but the Binghamton, N.Y., headquarters of his Operation Rescue is closing its doors. The three-year-old pro-life group won national notoriety by organizing blockades of abortion clinics around the country. Terry, convicted on misdemeanor charges of trespassing during a 1988 Atlanta-clinic protest, announced the closing last week upon his release from a Georgia prison, where he spent four months on a chain gang. The group buckled, he says, under the weight of a $50,000 lawsuit filed by the National Organization for Women...