Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a record of one second and one third place for the season, the Varsity cross countrymen will try their luck and skill for the third time this afternoon against a power-packed Dartmouth squad which last week shattered the hopes of Tufts...
...instance, the Germans, who thought that they were there for keeps, revised Holland's Who's Who during the occupation, garnishing it with a title-page photograph of Adolf Hitler and eight pages of Dutch "patriots" who were killed by their countrymen for serving the invaders...
...Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of India's new interim Government, wanted more of his countrymen-who used to go mainly to Britain for education-to look to the U.S. As he spoke, there were 300 Indians on the high seas, heading for U.S. universities; 300 others had already enrolled...
...Chiang Kai-shek's demand that the Communists "withdraw from areas where they threaten peace and obstruct communications," the Yenan Communist radio retorted: "What Chiang means, in a nutshell, is 'Countrymen, prepare for slaughter; it is all for your own good.'" The Communist answer: a "mobilization" call (for an army of 1,000,000 regulars, 2,000,000 guerrillas) and announcement of a "provisional supreme administration for democratic [Communist] Manchuria...
...homicidal campaign against all Japs "who did not behave like patriots and deny the lie of Japan's defeat." A gang, rounded up outside a small town in the state of Sâo Paulo, was typical. "It is an honor," shouted one gunman, ". . . [to murder] our defeatist countrymen!" For showing "defeatism," 70 Japs have met death in the past five months...