Word: patriots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leaders. But 'democracy' and 'freedom,' as they are under stood here, would seem strange to Americans. . . . Freedom exists here only in so far as it conforms with the Communist Party line. The Party brooks no opposition. If you are with it you are a patriot. If you are too critical you run the risk of being denounced as a traitor...
Bawled Laval at the start: "I am a patriot and I will prove it!" Up jumped the Judge, the prosecutor, all 24 jurors to shout him down. Having robbed the Court of its dignity, Laval smirked. His lawyers walked out, protesting that they had had no time to prepare. Laval pleaded humbly for a delay. It was refused; he slammed his briefcase down on a table...
...chairman of the British delegation, but Lord Keynes does nearly all the talking. Halifax, chin in hand, listens with an air of attentive patience, occasionally lifts his eyes in amazement at Economist Keynes's memory for facts & figures. Their associate, Sir Henry Self, who looks like an Irish patriot's caricature of a hard-eyed, thin-lipped Sassenach statesman, rarely makes a remark...
...wave of terror was an abortive coup instigated in CÓrdoba by brave but bumbling ex-President General Arturo Rawson. But the resounding demonstration staged in the streets of Buenos Aires last fortnight by 500,000 irate Argentines, some of them bearing a placard of famed Patriot Rogue Saenz Pefia was the tip-off to PerÓn that he had better get tough...
...never occurs to any U.S. citizen to pay the Treasury more than he is taxed. But in the past five years many a patriot has given the Treasury an outright cash gift. Last week the Treasury totted up: it had received about $7,385,000 from some 50,000 U.S. and other nations' citizens...