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Word: countrymen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week São Paulo police had Ringleader Toyojito Sugai and ten colleagues in jail. Their mulcted countrymen would probably be sent back to the rice paddies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Banzai Racket | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

...helped bring the Czechs and the Slovaks out of Habsburg domination, transform the country into Central Europe's prosperous bastion of democracy. He had not despaired when the Nazi blackout descended on his 10,000,000 Slav countrymen. Now he was helping them turn on the lights again. But they were different lights, and what was emerging into view was not yet clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Revolution by Law? | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

...their letters home, the Americans would remark that in Seoul the palaces face south, the city wall is all but gone, a tycoon is a yang ban, the favorite dish is shinsunro (beef, eggs, fish, chestnuts, etc.), the housewives wash their white clothes endlessly, and countrymen still wear miniature, translucent top hats, the traditional insigne of the married man. Very friendly people, too-everybody beaming and waving, and the children tagging along behind jeeps shrieking "Hello! hello...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: City of the Bell | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

...power, only with the support of the British Army in Greece. On their fateful visit to Athens last December, at the height of the tragic battle between Greek and Greek, and Greek and Briton, Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden chose Damaskinos as the one Greek who might save his countrymen from themselves-and who might save Greece for Britain and the western world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: If We Hold Fast . . . | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

Through the Venetian blinds of his fifth-floor office in the Ministry of War. Juan Domingo Perón last week looked down upon half-a-million of his countrymen. They shouted "Down with Perón!" "Death to dictatorship!" For three hours, they marched through Buenos Aires' Calle Callos. They whistled, hooted and catcalled. It was Perón's longest raspberry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Elect of God | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

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