Word: fanaticism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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For 40 years, American warships have been plying the Persian Gulf, symbolizing and substantiating the nation's role as a global power. Never before, however, have those vital waters seemed so treacherous. By blustering into an open- ended commitment to provide convoy protection to eleven reflagged Kuwaiti oil tankers, the...
The outcome of the trial had never been in doubt. The evidence against Barbie was overwhelming. From the testimony of French Jews and Resistance fighters, Barbie's chief victims, came a portrait of a particularly brutal fanatic with a taste for sadism. In his final, calm but chilling summing up...
My first stop, Algiers, presented a long-awaited opportunity to extend personal thanks to the only country whose leaders were permitted by the Iranians to serve as intermediaries between the U.S. and the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini during the latter part of my term as President. Back then we were able...
I got a letter yesterday from a Harvard sports fanatic. Unlike most sports loonies--who like anything from baseball to badminton--my correspondent only relishes Crimson hockey. Men's and women's ice hockey and women's field hockey. Nothing else.
F is for fanatic. Some of the Harvard spectators have been accused of being fanatics. Their cheers have not varied much from game to game and season to season. But oldies are sometimes goodies.