Word: warriorism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never asked for help, this brave warrior of old Harvard. As his clenched fists were removed from his pockets, one of them was found to contain a wadded up clipping from an old article which appeared in The Crimson of 1929. It told of how H. Wadsworth Billings III had scored the final touchdown in the Junior Varsity's dramatic 14-13 win over the Navy J. V. s. A tear froze...
...swells, a dark, bespectacled face topped with a leopardskin cap emerges to fill the screen. It is the visage of Mobutu, 44, also known as "le Guide," "le Clairvoyant," "le Redempteur." Without undue modesty, he has also chosen another name for himself that roughly translates as "the all-powerful warrior who, because of his endurance and will to win, will go from contest to contest leaving fire in his wake." Most of the news items are about Mobutu, and the broadcast closes with a commentary on "Mobutuism"-an amalgam of nationalist and self-help bromides that are credited with having...
Bawdy Doggerel. Pattern's private war-years papers reveal a much more complicated character than his comicbook legend suggested. He was an American original-a brilliant actor who played the aristocratic warrior or the cussing, jingo-spouting brute, depending on his audience. He once admitted to his aide that he practiced ferocious expressions in the mirror, but he despaired of ever having what he called "a real fighting face." He believed in the natural superiority of Americans in general and himself in particular; the ugly side of that self-confidence was a streak of contemptuous racism, reactionary smugness...
...outward appearances, Colby is unsuited for dirty tricks. "I'd call him an enlightened cold warrior," says a CIA officer. "But remember that this business is cold." In 1971, Colby went back to the CIA labyrinth in Langley...
...body in America and rejects the principal point of 37 previous grants of presidential amnesty. By degrading those opposed to war, it invites further wars because, as President Kennedy wrote, "War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today...