Word: patriotes
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Saint Stripper. Most Gauls guffawed last March when France's state-owned TV network spoofed two of the country's solemn passions, Bonaparte and bicycle racing. But so outraged at the "indecent parody" was retired Toulouse Lawyer Francois Bousgarbiès, 79, that the peppery little patriot haled the network into court for what the French press gleefully called "the new Battle of Waterloo." Demanded Plaintiff Bousgarbiès: the network must apologize to the nation, destroy the film and pay him 1 franc (20?) in symbolic damages...
...team, the nine hope that Harvard, stung by jealousy perhaps, will finally relent and let the 'Cliffe cheer the ten thousand in the Stadium. Though the prospects are remote, their practices sound like they mean it. The ancient walls of the Radcliffe Gym resound with their cries and Patriot anthems, and few go away unimpressed by the obvious sincerity of their "mash 'em" cheer...
...Karl Wolff was the very model of the Aryan SS general. To Himmler, his immediate superior, he was affectionately known as "Wolfie." But to American intelligence officers at the top-level P.W. camp at Gmunden in 1945, the tall, blond, aristocratic Wolff was a fascinating and highly valuable German patriot-"the white sheep" of the dreaded...
...sits in a tub. Under De Sade's influence, the other inmates-male lechers, burnt-out whores, renegade priests, and varied slobbering maniacs-weave through a kind of play within the play, which ends with the death of Marat. He is stabbed in his tub by the patriot Charlotte Corday, who has spent the rest of the evening trying to dodge the gross advances of an indefatigable satyr who has his hand under a nun's skirt as the play ends...
...Goldwater becomes President, a courageous, upright patriot will assume the office. No one can guarantee there will be no war, but with Goldwater we can be sure there will be no surrender...