Word: patrioteer
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...American exodus generated a number of implausible episodes of confusion and enterprise. One of the most unlikely involved William Gaylord and Paul Chiapparoni, employees of Electronic Data Systems, Inc., a Dallas-based computer company headed by a flamboyant patriot-chairman, H. Ross Perot. Arrested just before New Year's Day, the two men had been clapped into Tehran's Qasr jail, which then housed 11,000 prisoners. Unable to secure the men's release through State Department channels...
...prophetic pessimism of Conrad's fiction can be traced to his youth; a child of the 19th century, he was tossed about in true 20th century fashion. Born in the Ukraine in 1857, he quickly became a pawn to a larger power. His father, a nobleman and Polish patriot, was convicted of political crimes by the occupying Russian authorities and sent into exile, along with wife and child. In arctic solitude, young Conrad watched his mother and then his father dying slowly of consumption. An orphan at eleven, the boy felt the full force of his father...
...matches so decisively in the finals. The win was the first in six years for the American team, which has been shunned by top pros, such as Jimmy Connors, who prefer to play elsewhere. (The Cup pays only $2,000, plus expenses.) But McEnroe thoroughly enjoyed the role of patriot athlete. "When you see your flag and they play your national anthem, it's a little different," he says. And McEnroe also liked the sensation of contributing to a team victory: "That's really a nice feeling. There's not really that much of that kind of thing in tennis...
...Singleton, an ex-Patriot and head football coach at Boston State College, will take over Loyal Park's freshman football coaching job, while former women's crew coach Peter Raymond takes over for John Higginson at the helm of men's lightweight crew...
...adventures hi the Congo altered the course of the writer's life and art. He returned to England disillusioned and physically racked by tropical sickness. In addition, the destructive effects of Belgian colonialism on tribal life made a lasting impression on the son of a Polish patriot who had been jailed and exiled for his activities against Russian imperialism. During an overland trek from Matadi to Kinshasa, the Diary notes, he "met an off[ic]er of the State inspecting; a few minutes afterwards saw at a camp-[in]g place the dead body of a Backongo...