Word: patriotes
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...thunder-roll of his defiance. Few sensed how subtly they were also stirred by the overtones of Europe's high cultural tradition reverberating through those speeches. For almost alone among the world's statesmen, Churchill is a "good European" in the Nietzschean sense-by birth a patriot of Britain, by the mind a sharer in the only unity Europe has achieved-unity of culture. Last week, once more as master of ennobling language and as a good European, Churchill spoke to Europe...
Churchill kept lashing out across the floor, heckling and interrupting while Bevin spoke. Cried Ernie finally: "Party spirit [has] gained the upper hand of national interest ... I have watched Mr. Churchill as a great patriot and half an hour afterward he is a party man. . . ." Snapped Churchill: "We all know that you are the only patriot in the land...
...spirit of Washington and Lincoln her leaders would cease the cruel perfidy of the war against Japan. After the war he did not deny his words. The broadcasts had been made, explained Kagawa, to show both his government and his people that a Japanese Christian could also be a patriot...
...Wyck recalls, a patriot by the name of George W. Hinman "who would have led T. R. up San Juan hill" started a student drilling program in back of the aging Hemenway. But it took the first World War to require the use of Soldiers Field for the trainees. This move led to the inclusion of equitation in the intramural sports curriculum...
...life, as in death, Tai Li had been a partner of secrecy and violence. He was a legend-to his enemies, an Oriental Himmler, Plehve and Torquemada combined; to his friends, a ruthless but righteous patriot. Even Tai Li's age was unknown; he was "about" 50. His flat brown nose, wide-set black eyes and triangular ebony brows had appeared in few published photos. His birthplace was Chekiang, Chiang Kai-shek's native province. He studied at Whampoa Military Academy, where Chiang was president...