Word: patriot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Additional panels will be on display at the Boston Marathon and on Patriot's Day, Irons said...
...Ariel Sharon's attorney Milton Gould, the issue before the jury was the destruction of the reputation of a hero and patriot. "It falls to you, six Americans," he said, "to do your duty and eradicate this infamy." To Thomas Barr, chief counsel for Time Inc., what was at stake was the ability of the press to seek and print the truth. "This involves a news story of how a horrible, brutal, insensible massacre of women and children took place," he said. "That is what the press's job is: to dig at things like this, to pick at things...
...faces on Mount Rushmore, but Benjamin Franklin has a position in American mythology that could hardly be loftier. Canny diplomat and dispenser of moral apothegms, scientist and pioneer in electrical experiment and theory, Franklin is everyone's favorite patriot, the kindly uncle of the American Revolution. There was, however, a dark side to the familiar beaming countenance, an aspect that might have come from one of Freud's case histories of an overheated family crucible. This provocative and enlightening account overturns the legend by examining William, Benjamin's only son, born out of wedlock in 1731. Once his father...
...Thomas Pickering took a seat near the back. All had come to honor Lieut. Colonel Domingo Monterrosa Barrios, a man whose title only partly explained his importance. "Domingo was a good man," said the Rev. Manuel Vega in his eulogy. "Yesterday, today and for all times, Domingo is a patriot...
...troops in 1973 after four years of " Viet-namization." Sometimes known in diplomatic circles as "the Refrigerator" for his icy imperturbability, he later capped his career as chief negotiator in acrimonious but ultimately successful talks with Panama over the new canal treaties. "I'm an old-fashioned patriot," he once explained of his devotion to duty despite diplomacy's frustrations. "I have always assumed that my country was fundamentally right in its dealings with others...