Word: patriotically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when he was Chief of Staff of the Army, he excoriated a group of clergymen for their pacifist position . . . Yet this is the same man who . . . foisted upon the Japanese people a new constitution outlawing war altogether . . . The question is which MacArthur are we to believe? MacArthur the soldier, patriot, nationalist-or MacArthur the author of the Japanese constitution...
...land armies. No other man, not even General Eisenhower, can match his experience in the maneuvering of so many millions of men over so many thousands of square miles, in the simultaneous use of massed tanks, artillery and tactical aviation. Zhukov is a lifelong professional soldier and a Russian patriot; he is also a dedicated Communist. He speaks three or four languages (French, German, Spanish), is a specialist on the history of war (his favorite campaigner: Hannibal), has won Russia's top honorary title (Hero of the Soviet Union) three times...
Also Sunday in the New Hampshire Yale Jump at Lebanon, the varsity's Patriot jumped 112 feet and Joe Poindexter 64 feet to finish in the second half of Class B competition. The winning jump was 140 feet...
...Patriotic Plea. Virtually alone, Mendes fought back. "Our allies are already considering rearming Germany without us, and in September they were on the point of doing it without limitations or controls," he argued. "If we refuse it, they will do it just the same." Deputies hooted in disbelief. Had they not defied the last threat of "agonizing reappraisal" and gotten away with it? Mendes recited the new guarantees he had extracted from the U.S. and Britain, and their guarantee of the Saar deal. He pleaded against abstention-though he himself had abstained from voting on NATO and EDC. "It would...
...Viet Nam, by contrast, which remains within the French Union, is demoralized and divided. Bao Dai, the porcine Chief of State, lives in France with his mistresses, his Ferrari and his Jaguar XK 120. Bao Dai's Premier in Saigon is Ngo Dinh Diem, 53, a high-minded patriot but an ineffective leader, who is more or less locked up inside his palace by Vietnamese generals who want to grab power for themselves. In many of the villages that the Viet Minh infiltrators do not control,* local sects and gangsters rule with private armies...