Word: patriot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gutter fighter he is-and you've got to admire him." But once Truman got back to Washington, "Dean Acheson brought him back under control." All in all, MacArthur said, Truman was "a man of raw courage and guts-the little bastard honestly believes he is a patriot...
...there is method in Sihanouk's behavior. Even his enemies concede that he is a sincere patriot, obsessed by the desire to keep Cambodia independent. The closer the U.S. draws to his old enemies, the Vietnamese and the Thais, the more he feels he must swing to the other side in order to balance matters. He is probably serious when he says he does not really want the victory of Communism in Southeast Asia, because Cambodian independence depends on the continuing, balanced enmity between Communism and the West. Says he: "The day all Viet Nam is reunited under...
Grant, but under Cunningham it is growing faster than either; its sales in January and February ran 28% ahead of the record levels of 1963, when they reached $504 million. A Pennsylvania farm boy who was once a reporter for the Harrisburg Patriot, Cunningham started in a Kresge stock room 36 years ago, became chief executive in 1959. He promptly replaced all its vice presidents with younger men, but kept up the firm's traditions: no smoking or coffee drinking in the offices, men separated from women in the company cafeterias. On weekends, Cunningham likes to pop into...
...ever seems to see the same Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus. Those who have been involved in diplomatic negotiations find him baffling, enigmatic, and often infuriating. The 500,000 Greek Cypriots of his island home revere him as a guileless saint, a selfless patriot, and a tenderhearted humanitarian. The 100,000 Turkish Cypriots, a minority terrified of racial extinction, view him as a bloody-handed monster and "the devil of duplicity incarnate...
Oilless Flame. As politician, Macmillan made many enemies, for he was ruthless, Machiavellian and completely cold blooded in pursuit of his policies. But as a great parliamentarian, an unswerving patriot, and a man of courage, vision and humor, he will be long remembered. For the future, Macmillan intends to devote some of his time to his family's publishing house and hopes to commit at least "a few thoughts" to paper. He can also feel confident that his years in the political vineyards will be royally rewarded, either with an earldom or by being dubbed a Knight...