Word: patrioteer
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...sportswriter named Word Smith, a broad patch off Colonel John R. Stingo, the uninhibited prose stylist who wrote a column for the old New York Evening Enquirer. Smith, an inebriate of alliteration in a hounds-tooth overcoat, has dedicated his last years to resurrecting the national memory of the Patriot League. According to Smith, it was a third major league that has been made the American equivalent of a Soviet unperson through a conspiracy of silence. How this came about is Smith's story, so shaggy, discursive and bizarre that it defies synopsis. Suffice it to say that...
...Arboretum, located in Jamaica Plain, has experienced increased public usage over the past three years and was the location of large beer-drinking parties over the warm, three-day Patriot's Day weekend...
Detroit's Willie Horton crossed up Boston strategy by smashing a three-run homer yesterday powering the Detroit Tigers to a 9-7 victory over the Red Sox before a Patriot's Day crowd in Boston...
...campaign, and again, in 1939, they went on a 15-month spree of dynamiting elegant shops, theaters, mailboxes and railway cloakrooms. Joseph Conrad's protagonist in The Secret Agent schemed to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, just as the hero of a novel recently published in London, The Patriot Game, plans to blast the headquarters of the British secret service...
Citing reasons why he thought that L. Patrick Gray III would be an excellent director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Attorney General Richard Kleindienst said: "He's a real patriot and a dedicated anti-Communist." Moreover, added Kleindienst, "he's loyal to President Nixon...