Word: patriots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the Times rashly accused Irish Patriot Charles Stewart Parnell of condoning murder by Irish terrorists, and as evidence printed a letter supposedly written by Parnell. The government inquiry that proved the letter a forgery cost the paper ?200,000, wrecked its reputation and left it without capital to repel the privateers of the penny press...
Since those days, the pendulum has swung back a bit. Washington's Birthday, instead of being jeered at as a chauvinistic relic of D.A.R. promotion, is taken for what it is worth. It's a holiday in commemoration of an old patriot who undeniably pulled us out of a shaky situation, and, for all his shortcomings, managed to hold a few colonies together after the shouting and shooting had passed away. He might have been king, the historians tell us. He refused--and that's favor we might well thank...
...second thing Renault learned was that the home office could be wrong. He had the name and address of a patriot in Marseille who would be able to get him a radio operator for his secret transmitter. The patriot, as it turned out, was scandalized at the very idea. Renault had better luck near Bergerac, in the Dordogne, where his host was a small, salty squire, the father of eight, with a fine disdain for the conquerors. When, he asked, would Renault like to slip across into the German zone? After Renault replied "tomorrow," he realized that he was scared...
...Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg. . . . As a Christian gentleman, a thinker, a scholar, a diplomat, a patriot, he is unexcelled...
Fort Pitt is a stockaded outpost, threatened by Indians. Scoundrel DaSilva wants war with the Indians and a weak frontier (he is a fur trader). Patriot Cooper wants peace and a strong frontier (he is the stuff that the unborn U.S. is to be made of). DaSilva gets his war and it remains for Cooper to rescue Miss Goddard from the aborigines (Boris Karloff & friends...