Word: patrioteer
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...line of scrimmage, you've got the New England Patriot's aggressive, loud, and confident quarterback who can deftly read defensive formations, call his own plays and execute them gracefully. At home, you see a man of few words, who matter-of-factly offers you a Michelob in a quiet and self-conscious manner...
...intelligentsia. These past years have really been difficult ones, a period of belt tightening and building, building, building from scratch. The only country that came to our assistance with concrete, tangible help was the Soviet Union, and I am not saying this as a Communist, but as a Polish patriot. Now Poland ranks tenth in the world in terms of industrial output. But at the same time our country has a lot of shortcomings and some neglect in its infrastructure. We are now working to overcome these difficulties...
...whom life is a hard and marginal struggle, who care little about current events. They are not to be despised; their loyalty and sense of duty is such that they faithfully serve, or send their sons off to fight in wars they do not necessarily understand. Such unthinking patriotism is generally considered a right-wing manifestation, though right-wing is too political a term for so apolitical an attitude. Still, the passive patriot when aroused is a person to be feared: in troubled times-having earlier ignored the flow of political argument-he stirs to the noisy rhetoric of demagogues...
...today's perfervid Washington atmosphere, the fears of a sellout because of Watergate seemed excessive and simplistic. Defense Secretary James Schlesinger tried to counter such alarmism by noting loyally that "the President would do nothing intentionally that would damage the national security. The President is a visceral, instinctive patriot." Besides, anything that even looked like a sellout would crush his chances for political survival. The conservatives, most of them Southerners who are expected to provide his major support in a Senate trial if the House votes to impeach him, are also the ones who are most skeptical of Soviet motives...
...single sold 264,000 copies the first year, and the album of the same name 855,000. The song put Haggard into the millionaire class, which he did not mind. It also earned him a reputation as a spokesman for the right wing, which he did. Haggard is a patriot, all right, but his own kind: instinctive, apolitical. When George Wallace sent him a feeler asking him to campaign in the Alabama Governor's re-election campaign in 1970, Haggard refused...