Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually, squarejawed, mystical President Juan Jose Arevalo is no real socialist, but a warm-hearted man full of the necessity for improving the lot of his countrymen. His books, written while he was a university professor in Argentina, abound with denunciations of Communism as "the lowest form of social organization." He sits up to all hours drawing blueprints for school improvements. He discourses by the hour to such visitors as Cinemactor Tyrone Power on the urgent need for a Central American union (TIME, Sept...
...would get the same answer from the Danes themselves, not on account of national pride but because it would be indecent to sell their own countrymen...
...Face of Death. Henry Stimson did not see how any man could have done otherwise "and afterwards looked his countrymen in the face." Did his apologia have "a harsh and unfeeling sound?" He reflected: "As I look back over the five years of my service as Secretary of War I see too many stern and heart-rending decisions to be willing to pretend that war is anything else than what it is. The face of war is the face of death. . . . This deliberate premeditated destruction was our least abhorrent choice...
...would call gross unfairness in the campaign [but] alleged outright fraud in the counting is not substantiated . . . the way to get them to hold Marquis of Queensbury elections here is to applaud them for what they are doing so courageously and well. . . . And if this be lecturing my countrymen, let them make the most...
...Seward 101 years ago. Twenty-one years later, he bought one of the Arctic marches-Alaska -for less than 2? an acre. He would have bought Canada and Greenland if he could. He tried to get Denmark's Virgin Islands, but was a half-century ahead of his countrymen. When the islands were bought during World War I, one of Seward's successors, bumbling Robert Lansing, tossed in a quitclaim to northern Greenland...