Word: patriotic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last weekend, the whole league knew better. Gaining 219 yds. the previous Sunday on a snow-covered field against a special six-man New England Patriot line-designed to stop O.J. -Simpson pushed his 1973 yardage to 1,803. As he looked toward the final game against the Jets, O.J. was all confidence. "Hey, man," he said, "you know I'm going to do it." Indeed, Simpson kept his word by running his total yardage of the year...
...shouting: "I am going to get some gas even if I have to kill somebody." In Hanford, Calif., a station owner who had closed at the President's call found that a competitor across the street was open on Sunday and doing a hopping business. So the patriot hauled out a pistol and shot up six of his rival's pumps...
...Discontent was rampant up and down the colonial seaboard after the British government granted the East India Company a monopoly on all tea exported to the American colonies; only in Boston did discontent manifest itself in violence. Boston's merchant class feared that the monopoly would, according to one patriot, "destroy every branch of our commerce, drain us all of our property, and wantonly leave us to perish by the thousands...
...front, thinking of my family, scratching the names of my wife and son on the bottom of the trench I said, 'How is it possible that I, anti-patriot, anti-militarist, who acknowledged only the International, come to attacking my companions in misery and perhaps shall die for my enemies against my own cause and my own interests?'" --a French syndicalist, after the World War I mobilization...
SYRIA, MAJOR GENERAL MUSTAFA TLAS: This perfervid Arab patriot is Deputy Commander in Chief of the Syrian army as well as Defense Minister. Tlas, 45, has been an uncompromising opponent of any attempt at a negotiated settlement of the Middle East crisis. A believer in "people's war," and author of a book on guerrilla fighting, he was one of the first Syrian army regulars to give support to the Palestinian commandos in their war against King Hussein, with a brief but disastrous invasion of Jordan...