Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Gestapo agents and German soldiers closed in on an apartment house in Athens, Major Jean Tsigantes, patriot, did not surrender. Armed only with a revolver, he killed three of the Germans and wounded two others while guarding a secret file of underground records. Last week in Cairo an order of the day was addressed to the personnel of the Greek Army in the Middle East. It said simply...
...somewhat-more-than-mighty vision of a 19th-Century American patriot was put on display last week at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. The vision was a Historical Monument of the American Republic as beheld in fantasy and painted about 1876 by Erastus Salisbury Field...
...Patriot De la Chapelle knew when he pulled the trigger that he would pay with his life. Under a rigorous colonial third degree he would say only: "No accomplices were needed to do justice." Before the firing squad he did not flinch...
General Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattrede Tassigny was a fighting hero in two wars against Germany. He was tall, dark, gallant with the ladies. To his soldiers he was the model of military men. He was also a patriot...
...undergraduates and friends. "We are determined to shape the future by our own actions today. We shall take tomorrow in our strong hands and mold it to our own will." But he pointed out that "Idealism alone does not explain this will of ours; a clear sense of patriot self-interest is just as important. The dread of futility turns our minds to postwar planning. Though we have no specific details in mind, there are certain general principles on which most of us agree...