Word: patriot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Asian republic of South Viet Nam, Ike's invitation to make an official state visit was a triumph almost as great as Viet Nam's freedom is a shining vindication of U.S. foreign-aid policies. Less than three years ago Diem was a lonely, almost unknown Vietnamese patriot and onetime provincial governor living in self-imposed exile from French colonial rule-among other places, in the U.S., where he spent several years as a guest at Maryknoll Junior Seminary at Lakewood...
...Pals. Two of the Reds' most ambitious attempts at undermining the church were the Patriot Priests and Pax, both of them originated by Ivan Serov, head of the NKVD in Poland during the Stalin period. Serov set up two Trojan horses to take over the church, one loaded with docile ("patriot") priests, one with laymen...
Even less successful was the organization of the Patriot Priests, headed by Father Jan Czuj, hard-drinking dean of Warsaw University's theological faculty, who started with a group of Catholic chaplains in the Polish army who had been trained and brainwashed in the U.S.S.R. during the war. By best estimates, the group never numbered more than...
Every year on Patriot's Day, April 19, the swan boats migrate out of winter storage in a warehouse down to the Boston Public Gardens opposite the Common. At this time, and during the rest of the summer, the city's harried mothers bring their offspring over to the garden pond for a ride, a look at the ducks and swans, and a chance to throw peanuts at the pigeons...
...fish and the dragon's tremble; I vow by the mountains and the grass, and the grass and the trees are startled." It is said that our great patriot Admiral Yi Soon Shin had this engraved on his sword during the time he defended Korea from Japanese aggression more than 400 years...