Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first seven days as Peru's President, José Luis Bustamante Rivero* restored press freedom and full civil rights to his countrymen, freed Peru's political prisoners. He had also fired 300 of the old regime's strong-arm men, cancelled gambling licenses and taken a good long look at the expenditures of the national treasury...
...Marshal's countrymen, who five years ago looked to him as a fallen nation's hope, caught a glimpse of him as he passed on the way from Montrouge Prison to the Palais de Justice. Stiff with age and dignity, Pétain sat far in the back of the van. His wife, two doctors, two nurses and three lawyers trailed him in a five-car convoy. In the Palais courtyard the half-deaf old man was helped down by two gendarmes. "Ah," he quavered, "so we are here...
Last week his countrymen had a new quip: "It was simple. Credit: Velasco came in. Debit: $6,500,000 went...
...were chosen by the author and screened by the translator to accent the quaint and unusual. Yet Ricardo Palma, if he has a U.S. counterpart, was his country's Washington Irving. His tales merely serve to accent the vastly different heritages of two Western Hemisphere nations. His own countrymen relish Palma's brigands and cutthroats because they are heirs to the tradition that life is a grim, bitter joke and had best be laughed at. Sample Palma ironies...
...doubtful whether Kirsten Flagstad's great voice would ever again be heard in the U.S. In her native Norway, 49-year-old Soprano Flagstad was an unrespected citizen. Norwegians regard their fellow countrymen as either politically allgood or all-bad (everyone either collaborated with the Nazis or worked underground against them)-and most Norwegians are convinced that Flagstad was more loyal to her quisling husband than to her country. Now, as her husband frets in jail, she has found little encouragement from the U.S.; the Metropolitan's Edward Johnson has said: "I see no reason...