Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pressler has brought along an inventor named Alexander Hamilton and his homemade "gasohol" still, an odd assemblage of galvanized buckets and tubs and funnels. Hamilton (no kin to the patriot) is a pleasant man with wire-rimmed glasses, mutton-chop whiskers, and the dirty fingernails of a chronic tinkerer. As Pressler watches proudly, Hamilton pours fermented corn mash into his contraption, plugs in an electric cord, and begins adjusting valves. A tiny stream of alcohol squirts into a plastic bucket. The odor of the alcohol mingles in the room with the disquieting scent of dementia...
...post-election press conference, Haughey tried to sound like both peacemaker and patriot. "I'm tinged with green, all right," he conceded, but added firmly: "I condemn the provisional I.R.A. and all their activities." Yet his stance on Ulster's future was clearly hawkish: re-unification "is my primary political priority." On cooperating with the British, Haughey said that Ireland's own forces are "totally capable of dealing with security matters." He dismissed as "inadequate" Britain's latest proposals to end the Ulster violence, including an all-party conference of Catholic and Protestant leaders. Small wonder...
Though he said he is "an American patriot and damned ashamed of it," Wald said he approved of the Iranian students' seizure of the embassy because only direct action could have ended American intervention in Iran...
...weapons systems, ranging from the Trident nuclear-missile submarine to the Patriot antiaircraft missile. But much more will probably be required, and at a quicker pace...
...endless lauding of John Wayne [June 25] as an American hero and patriot has now gone too far. Enthusiastic as he was for the glorious wars fought by this nation, he was politically naive and simplistic. He never saw battle except on a movie set. He did not know war as the terrible and tragic thing...