Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party . . . I am in this race all the way. I am in this race because I want my party, the Republican Party, to be a strong, dynamic and responsive force for good government in America. I am neither a 'summer soldier' nor a 'sunshine patriot' of the political wars; neither am I the foe of any other Republican...
Dunne still wrote warmly of Teddy Roosevelt, Mark Twain and the Irish patriot Michael Collins, but he was harder on his enemies. When Nicholas Murray Butler joshed him about his weight, Dunne snapped: "Yes, my fat goes under my belt, but yours goes under your hat." At the 1916 Republican Convention, writes Dunne, "Henry Cabot Lodge would have given an eye for the nomination. Or perhaps that is going too far. Let us say he would have sacrificed his dearest friend for the honor...
...purist and patriot, Linguist Etiemble has declared war against Franglais, the pidgin French-English that has flooded la belle langue with U.S. neologisms. French newspapers speak of call-girls, cliff-dwellers, containment, fairways, missile-gaps, uppercuts. French sociologists analyze le melting-pot, out-groups, ego-involvement. French business roils with words like boom, le boss, fifty-fifty, soft-approach and supermarket...
...Negotiating with Russia: "I believe there may be just room to coexist if we reply to Russia's Jekyll and Hyde performance with a certain duality of our own. We must expose and frustrate the conspirator and negotiate with the patriot. If Mr. Khrushchev is sending a genuine olive branch, then he will find I am perfectly capable of sitting on the branch with him and cooing like a dove...
After the revolutions of 1848 swept the Continent, Hungarian Patriot Lajos Kossuth said that his countrymen were the "reddest republicans in Europe." Today, seven years after Russian tanks crushed the Hungarian revolt, Hun gary's 14 million people are fast be coming Europe's most republican Reds...