Word: patriot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Soumay Tcheng, 65, petite, irrepressible Chinese patriot who spent her life fighting for the freedom of China and the emancipation of women, became China's first woman lawyer, wife of Wei Tao-ming, Chinese ambassador to the U.S. (1942-46); of cancer; in Los Angeles. At 17 Madame Wei left home to join Sun Yat-sen's exiled Kuomintang Party in Japan, returned to help plot the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty. She carried secret messages and bombs in a suitcase, held revolutionary meetings in her own home, even though her father was a prominent figure...
Benjamin Franklin, printer, philosopher, scientist, author, patriot and first citizen of Philadelphia, is America's universal man. Perhaps the most attractive aspect of his greatness was that he managed to be a kind of human golden mean-wise, moral, prudent, without being dull. This first volume of his collected papers gives readers the happy chance to get reacquainted with Franklin's winy wit, sage maxims and arrow-swift mind...
Although Eisenhower, patriot that he is, declares his willingness to swear every morning that he is not a Communist, he feels that the universities have a right to resent being "singled out" as a group of potential subversives. He regards a basic citizenship oath as sufficient...
...Patriot's Card. Nehru let Krishna Menon defend himself, and the lean, vinegary minister went swiftly on the offensive. He refused to answer attacks on his integrity or patriotism and snapped: "When the time comes when I have to carry a card of patriotism, it will not be worth it." He taunted those opponents who challenged his qualifications with the acid remark that government ministers, "rightly or wrongly, are not appointed by the opposition." Krishna Menon told Parliament that troop movements toward the border, "consistent with our resources," had taken place, and boasted that Indian armament production had nearly...
...Molly Maguire was a fierce-tempered Irish widow and patriot who in the 18403 organized gangs in Ireland to oppose the British overlords, beating and murdering landlords and their agents in protest against oppressive rents...