Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dinh Diem seems at first glance an improbable man for a fight against Ho Chi Minh, the wispy, twisting onetime chef's assistant who is so resolutely Communist, yet so clever that much of Asia still toys with the notion that he is really just a Vietnamese patriot. Diem's career has grown mostly out of negative decisions. He is a sparsely gifted administrator, and of politics he says: "Clever maneuvers only betray, demoralize and divide the people." To some of the more sophisticated in the game, he rates as a marginal...
Staten Island (N.Y.) Advance (41,761) Harrisburg (Pa.) News (82,044) Harrisburg Patriot (35,055) Portland (Ore.) Oregonian...
...only consolation was offered by the Almanao which suggested that Patriot's Day April 19, was going to be "nice." After that, however, Memorial Day, May 30, will be "rainy, so-so for fishing...
Seventy-seven marathoners scrambled over macadam hills and cobble-stone dales Saturday afternoon in the Brighton Board of trade road race, the first of three shake-down competitions before the Patriot's Day Boston Marathon on April...
...Casey play, The Bishop's Bonfire, was coming to town-and Dublin remembered 1926. That year the Abbey Theater produced O'Casey's since famed The Plough and the Stars, an irreverent treatment of the 1916 Irish revolution. It roused Irish fury to such patriotic heights that shrieking, whistling men and women stampeded for the stage to drag the actors off. Actor Barry Fitzgerald met the first charging patriot with an uppercut that sent him flying back into the stalls. One actress threw her shoe at the attackers. It was caught and thrown back at Poet...