Word: fanaticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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*Mr. Ick.es, long a fanatic on turning off unnecessary electric lights in the Interior Department, few days ago spied on scores of clerks skulking into the Department cafeteria for a quick bracer (coffee or tea), next day ordered the cafeteria closed after lunch.
In V. M. I.'s 100 years there have been some great doings. In 1859 a band of 100 cadets trooped to Charles Town to witness the hanging of an indiscreet fanatic named John Brown. In 1861 a 37-year-old instructor quit his ten-year job at V...
This English doctor, now old and weary, still has the soul of a crusader. Not content with a job well done, he insists on pushing ahead with a fanatic zeal. Knowledge of this work has forced upon Vag an irrepressible desire to learn more about it. Partly for this reason...
Suddenly a mysterious little man who looked like an anachronism appeared from nowhere. He was tremendously interesting from the point of view of both the Egyptologist and the psychoanalyst and even to Vag. It seemed almost certain that he was scurrying off to some clandestine meeting, deep in the entrails...
The square-jawed French Premier returned hot from an inspection of French lines to broadcast: "I am not the leader of fanatic masses. I am charged with direction of a nation of free men. . . . They know why they are fighting. They are fighting because Germany has forced war on us...