Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...workers and students trekked in driving snow to the village of Lány outside Prague to visit the grave of ex-Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk, who jumped or was pushed from a window to his death in 1948. The Communists, who have worked ceaselessly to obliterate the democratic patriot's memory, had kept crowds away from the grave for years. While a girl student played a folk melody on a flute, a bearded youth read a eulogy that urged Czechoslovaks to remember Masaryk "in these crucial times, when we hope that men of his quality will lead...
...career, the 1937 Parnell. "Carry on my fight for Ireland. I charge you. See that Ireland is never defeated," said Gable on Parnell's deathbed. His acting was not equal to the role, and audiences chuckled when they saw the tough-guy trying to play the patriot. He picked later roles more carefully, and fans never laughed again...
Nguyen Ngoc Huy, an official of the Tan Dai Viet Party: "The Vietnamese people are frightened. Viet Nam needs a real leader, a real patriot. But so far, the Americans have not been able to find such a person. This is because they make a basic mistake-they make contact only with people they feel are leaders, not the people the Vietnamese think are leaders. The trouble with the present government is that its leaders are military men. They lack political ability...
STUDENT: Miss, you are a patriot...
...teacher at Hanoi's Thang Long School. His idol, even then, was Napoleon. "He could step to the blackboard," one of his former students recalls, "and draw in the most minute detail every battle plan of Napoleon." But his admiration for the French stopped there. A fervent Vietnamese patriot, he had joined an anti-French clandestine organization when he was only 14, later became a member of Viet Nam's fledgling Communist Party...