Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cairo, after a six-weeks survey of 17 European countries, Herbert Hoover went to a microphone to broadcast to his fellow countrymen...
...year-old electric-bill collector, holder of the Greek marathon† title, who lived through the misery of wartime Athens. A year ago he had an idea: Greece's first victory in 50 years of Boston Marathons might dramatize his struggling nation, gain U.S. aid for his hungry countrymen...
...from mythical Charybdis, in the Straits of Messina, he had long tossed between the rock of poverty and the whirlpool of Fascist repression. Until the blackshirts fell, he had eked out an existence as a statistician. Then, on Columbus Day, 1944, he had rediscovered America for his countrymen...
Mexico's big spender seemed to have his countrymen behind him. Mexican fans, who are probably as well read on the daily doings of U.S. baseball as the average U.S. citizen, turned out 700,000 strong for the first 24 games. Most of the U.S. players lured south had a little trouble with the high altitude, but otherwise professed to be happy. Best of the imported sluggers was Bob Estalella, late of the Philadelphia Athletics, with four homers and a .471 batting average. But none of the fancy-salaried lads came near a U.S. Negro, Theolic Smith...
American women are different. Mr. Wu Kun-Kan, as a Chinese newspaper correspondent in the U.S., had studied the inscrutable ways of the West long enough to realize that. Last week, in a letter to a Shanghai paper, he tried to tell his countrymen about...