Word: jingoistically
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...Volpe seems to ignore even that economic reality. He appears to think that the jingoist argument of "keeping up with the Russians" is reason enough to sink more money into an ill-planned project. It isn't. Instead of artificially prolonging the SSTs' life, Volpe should mercifully kill...
...cannot include their occupation of Japan." Stubby, acerbic and continually puffing cigars, he firmly steered his nation from the rubble of war through the U.S. occupation toward its emergence as a modern industrial democratic state. All along the way, he fended off attacks from both the Communist left and jingoist right, and by his retirement could point to prosperity, peace and friendship with the Western world...
...most immediate concern, of course, is Viet Nam. Wheeler is no jingoist, just as McNamara is no pacifist. But before Congress their differences have become clear. Wheeler believes in the efficacy of bombing North Viet Nam far more strongly than McNamara, who doubts the wisdom of intensifying the air war. Moreover, though his misgivings have never been publicly expressed, Wheeler has not been wholly in sympathy with McNamara's gradualist increase in military pressure on North Viet Nam. Wheeler agrees with the theory of flexible or graduated response to aggression, but believes that the restraints the U.S. has imposed...
...very long ago, Sir James Frazer sat in his leather armchair, distilling an impressive compendia of primitive customs from the reports of adventurous travelers; at the same time his countrymen were rallying to the jingoist battle cries of Kipling. Nor was the primacy of white civilization absent from the American idiom: with the then recent defeat of the last of the Indians, the slogan "Better dead than Red" still meant something. Soon after the turn of the century, however, modern cultural anthropology was born, when Franz Boas left his study and took to the hills in search of the truth...
Civilianizing. "What a way to treat the navy!" cried London's jingoist tabloid Daily Sketch. A Daily Mail cartoon showed Admiral Nelson atop his Trafalgar Square roost dressed in top hat, striped trousers and cutaway coat. But Tory anger in Commons was stayed by the realization that Britain could either cooperate or go on cutting off the flow of its lifeblood oil at Suez. Lord Hailsham, quieter in London than he was in Port Said, said: "We will civilianize the whole fleet if necessary...