Word: patriotic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...statue will be displayed in Israel's capital. "There was no way that statue wasn't going to Jerusalem," said Leventhal. In the 2nd century, the Jews who lived there "would have given anything to get their hands on Hadrian," who crushed the revolt led by Patriot Bar Kokhba and savagely persecuted the Jews. Now that contemporary Israelis have him, they are not about to let Hadrian go. As consolation for not letting Leventhal keep his find, Israeli archaeologists have promised him some ancient Jewish coins for his collection...
...Notre Dame in 1956, the graduate experienced an epiphany atop the Washington Monument. In a soliloquy straight out of a Loyalty Day pageant, Agee claims to have sworn, "I'll be a warrior against Communist subversive erosion of freedom and personal liberties around the world-a patriot dedicated to the preservation of my country and our way of life...
Hopes for Peace. Now, more than half a century after the Revolution, this is the era of what the party calls "the new Soviet man." The Bolsheviks would hardly recognize him. He is not a liberal democrat, but he would like to be a consumer. He is a patriot, even a chauvinist, but he is friendlier to foreigners than his police force appreciates. He probably does not want to read The Gulag Archipelago even if he could, but he thought Arthur Hailey's Airport, a bestseller in the Soviet Union, was fascinating. He drinks too much, his government says...
...turns out that for all of his hard-talking, pulling-no-punches image, Jimmy Breslin is a bit of a sappy patriot. He gets some good, sentimental Irish teardrops in his eyes when he thinks of how the United States pulled thgough Watergate and came out stable and stronger than ever. In his castigation of the Bad Guys and his adulation of the Good, Breslin expresses what a lot of Americans who never thought of themselves as particularly patriotic felt in the heat of last summer's battle. His identification with O'Neill is nearly complete, and he respects...
...next seven years, four of them in solitary confinement, Mindszenty was released by freedom fighters in the 1956 uprising, but the arrival of Soviet troops force him to flee to the American legation in Budapest. Citing what he regarded as his duty as prince primate and as a patriot to remain in his homeland, Mindszenty stayed there for 15 years, writing, studying, and celebrating mass daily. He resisted the Vatican's pleas that the he leave until in 1971 a detente-minded President Nixon joined Pope Paul VI in asking him to leave. An embittered Mindszenty surrendered, entering into exile...