Word: countryman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mechanized farming, wilful waste and modern youth's snobbish contempt for the land are reducing the American countryman to the same degenerate level as the city dweller, i.e., a soulless, luxury-mad "parasite on the good earth" who wanders through life "with a kindly, moronic smile of self satisfaction...
Pragmatism and Polygamy. Though Europe's universities outrank the U.S.'s in Nigerian esteem, Orizu heard American universities praised by a fellow countryman, came to the U.S. in 1939, at Ohio State took his degree in government with honors, proceeded to an M.A. at Columbia. Through his American Council on African Education he has thus far secured 150 U.S. college scholarships for his countrymen. In a few months he expects to go home (where he may or may not resume the throne) and begin working at first hand to improve Nigeria's 36,626 schools...
...gesture of contempt for foreigners); unrestrained savagery against helpless peoples; preoccupation with "face" (which Gorer traces to Japanese parents' sensitiveness to ridicule of an ill-behaved child by outsiders). The Japanese, says Gorer, do not stick together well under attack; they readily turn against a fellow countryman placed in a ridiculous position by outsiders-a fact which, he thinks, accounts for hara-kiri and the frequent changes in Japanese military leadership...
...Said one countryman: "If you want to eat corn, you'd better be a hog." Headlined the Charleston, S.C. News & Courier: "CALAMITY...
Regarding Prime Minister Churchill's warning to the Allied peoples (TIME, July 12), he might have quoted a fellow countryman as well as St. Paul. Remarked Boss Witch Hecate in Shakespeare's Macbeth...