Word: fatherland
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...South Viet Nam's National Assembly. Speaking in halting gasps, wearing dark glasses, he told the legislators that it was for them to decide if he should stay in office or make way for General Minh. "Now our ally has abandoned us and we have to defend our fatherland alone," he warned, "but by doing that Saigon may become a sea of fire and a mound of bones. I wish to avoid this...
...learned the motel business from his grandfather in West Virginia, and Nick was not averse to playing up to the crafty old gentleman's desire to leave his fortune in good hands. Nick was all ready to be the old gentleman's guide on a return to Greece, the fatherland, until Nick's father, seeing a threat to the line of succession, told the boy to scram back to Daytona...
...January and in a stark, 2½%-hour documentary film, the Hillels trace the pro gram's grotesque course. They show that Himmler had become obsessed with the idea of "racial war" and told Lebensborn directors that he wanted "racially acceptable" children in occupied lands brought to the Fatherland to be raised as Germans. "How can we be so cruel as to take a child from its mother?" he asked piously, then answered: "How much more cruel to leave a potential ge nius with our natural enemies...
...funeral of another officer, Argentina's army commander, Lieut. General Leandro Anaya, promised to wage battle with the terrorists "until we have achieved the total extermination of the enemies of the fatherland." While threatening to wipe out the guerrillas, Anaya was careful to stress that the army will do so in support of President Isabel Perdón's constitutional government and not by overthrowing...
...what could be taken as a justification of the spying activities that he proposed and supervised. He perceives a radical threat to the "constitutional system" because the right of peaceful assembly "to seek redress of grievances was corrupted into violence, and freedom of expression into license." Words such as fatherland crop up repeatedly, along with Liddy's conviction that the U.S. is smothering and softening in permissive flab. He praises the "tough, disciplined, confident esprit of the German soldier" at the start of World War II and urges a reawakening of "duty, loyalty, patriotism." His conclusion is no less...