Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldiers abroad have misunderstood on every possible occasion the people they have known so slightly. The education of students abroad, with its advantage of personal contacts, would have a twofold value: the broadening of the individual student's viewpoint, and his ability. . . to erase a few of (his countrymen's) misconceptions concerning foreigners...
...Ernie Bevin's philosophy, liberty and socialism do not contradict each other. His early poverty had led him to prize economic security above economic opportunity. Britain's waning power after two wars persuaded Bevin and his countrymen that sovereignty must be bent to fit a pattern of world order. They knew also that UNO could not be built on a foundation of immoral compromises with expediency. As Britain's ancient strength declined, its ancient principles must take, at least in part, the place of power...
Though most U.S. authorities were convinced that Roxas had accepted the position to aid his countrymen, the Osmeña faction promptly painted him in different colors. Cried Osmeña's political ally, Tomás Confesor...
...shirt sleeves, clean, handsome, kind, they looked to us like angels on earth. The Americans especially have been very much liked in Italy for their cordiality and spontaneity. Their childishness and innocence, in contrast to the false brilliancy and self-styled cleverness of so many of my countrymen, was delightful to me. Pity that they drink too much...
...Pier 90 and moved through the grey morning toward the open sea, she carried the Justice Minister on his greatest assignment yet. As head of Canada's five-man delegation,* Louis Stephen St. Laurent was London-bound to speak for his eleven and a half million countrymen, and to guard their interests, at the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization (see INTERNATIONAL...