Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editorialists were in a dilemma; they did not want to argue that the President was indispensable, but they thought he should be taken to task. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "He gave many of his countrymen a slightly nervous afternoon. . . . While we all like and admire high officials who do not think that their own necks are the most important things in the world, the hard fact remains that those necks very often...
...been the coldest and most calculating of all, his machinations the most arrogant, his nation's defeat the most ruinous. When he tried to commit suicide he failed again; at year's end he lived on, saved from death by U.S. blood, shunned by his countrymen, still able to read that U.S. strategists had decoded his every intention, that he had never really had a chance...
...Dominican who knows the cruelties and oppression to which my countrymen have been subjected for the last 15 years, allow me to thank you for your article of Nov. 19th, and believe me that you could fill page after page with cruelties committed by Trujillo and his henchmen...
...Some Americans who knew prewar Germany were shocked when they began to realize how great a drop that was. Germany (despite her self-advertised status as a "have-not" nation) had lived far better than other Continental nations. Even now Germans returning from Poland and The Netherlands told their countrymen that they had no cause to grumble...
...them. In Iran the thin, red line of British west-to-east imperialism crosses the north-to-south axis of Russian expansionism. In Peter the Great's famed "testament" (even if he did not write it, historians call it an accurate expression of Russian policy), he exhorted his countrymen to "excite continual wars in Turkey and Persia...