Word: fourth
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Recycled patriotism is soothing in a way. Like the ritual reading of the Declaration from the Old State House balcony, which has been repeated every July 4 since 1776, the stock themes of patriotic rhetoric are as much a part of the nostalgia of the Fourth as the John Phillips Sousa marches repeated every year...
...perhaps that's what the Fourth of July is for. Originality, in a sense, would be a violation of tradition. The language of patriotism, with all its clichs and its repetitions, can bind us almost as much as the ideals themselves...
...Boston area brought in the first Fourth of July of the new millennium in grand fashion, celebrating the nation's independence with parades, concerts and the traditional fireworks displays...
Cambridge held its own Fourth of July ceremonies last Saturday, celebrating the 1775 arrival of George Washington to Cambridge with "Revolutionary Cambridge Discovery...
...confrontation with Montenegro to a head, mindful of the fact that the last thing Washington needs right now is to be dragged into yet another messy Balkan civil war. Milosevic on Thursday stunned his opponents by pushing constitutional changes through parliament that not only allow him to seek a fourth term of office but also diminish the already limited powers of Montenegro's government in the Yugoslav federation...