Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five years ago a patriot in Washington, D. C. denounced two Rugg books as "communistic," but the District of Columbia Board of Education gave them a clean bill of health. No Communist, Dr. Rugg has espoused some radical ideas, was an ardent believer in Technocracy...
...view of Nazi triumphs, as old-fashioned as a torchlight parade. Last week his grave words on democratic rights and duties were vindicated, not only in terms of their expression of a cause, but in the practical sense of a measure of defense that the most hard-boiled patriot could subscribe...
...patriot that Paul Hoffman spoke -Old Cornelius Cole, whose life spanned a good part of U. S. history...
...always wanted to be a Peace King, as his father, Albert I, was a War King. So great is his abhorrence of bloodshed that he despises hunting (one of his pet projects was a bird sanctuary at his villa at Le Zoute). Above all, he is a patriot, and it was a supreme irony that his pity for his people led to the surrender of his country...
Kaarlo Valkonen (Alfred Lunt) is a scientist strongly opposed to war. But when war comes on the terms it does, Valkonen abandons his pacifism, turns down a chance to leave Finland, and goes, like his patriot son, to be killed. His wife (Lynn Fontanne) stays also, prepared to defend her home, but she compels her daughter-in-law, who is expecting a child, to flee the country...