Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Commodore Parker's larger supporting fleet was delayed for two months, partly because of bad winds. By the time the two joined in May, the main Loyalist forces in North Carolina, some 1,800 kilt-wearing Scots colonials led by Allan Macdonald, had been long since routed by Patriot militia in the battle of Moore's Creek. Disappointed, Clinton and Parker sailed south...
...most cases there is no law to justify Patriot attacks on Loyalist sympathizers. Often it is simply a matter of mob violence. When a crowd of Patriots seized a Massachusetts customs official named John Malcohn, a witness recalls: "Being disarmed of sword, cane, hat and wig, he was genteelly tarred and feathered [until] he had more the appearance of the devil than any human being." Malcohn survived that mauling ?only to be trapped by another mob three months later. This time "he was stript stark naked, one of the severest cold nights this winter, his body covered all over...
Jones recently completed the biography of Mack Herron, the former New England Patriot running back now with the Los Angles Rams. "Mack! "will be published this winter by Sports Illustrated's Little-Brown...
...Canadian was just as smooth in his passing; Cornell got its tying goal in regulation with a French behind the back over the shoulder assist to midfielder Bill Marino. The third member of the attack, Jonathan Levine, (who must know how drummer Peter Best, Rep. William Miller and patriot William Dawes feel) showed he isn't about to play in anyone's shadow by scoring four times including a crucial insurance goal in the second overtime period...
...movie and the new Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein book, The Final Days (TIME, March 29), have combined to revive the search for the tattler-patriot who served the Nixon Administration while helping to bring it down. In surreptitious pre-dawn meetings during the unraveling of Watergate, as Woodward tells it, Deep Throat often confirmed and occasionally volunteered devastating information learned in his "sensitive" Government post...