Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the Communists!" The crowd came near to killing Comrade Saad. He was saved when a leftist mob engaged the conservatives in a free-for-all in front of the Presidential palace. At the height of this political disagreement, President Velasco stepped out on a balcony, talked his volatile countrymen into breaking off their bout and going home...
George Washington, who was first in war, peace and the hearts of his countrymen, was also first to endow a U.S. college with a sizable gift of securities. Washington and Lee University, reporting on the 100 shares of James River Navigation Co. stock (total par value: $20,000) which Washington got from a grateful State of Virginia and passed on in 1796 to Liberty Hall Academy (later renamed for him and General Robert E. Lee), said that it had yielded an average 6% from 1802 until 1892, when Virginia retired the stock at $500 a share. The University, having reinvested...
Having made this gesture of appeal, the London Poles next day made the last despairing gesture which might help their countrymen-President Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz officially ordered the Home Army disbanded...
...months, while Seydlitz and others were calling on their countrymen to quit, Paulus was Junker-silent. But the Russians and his fellow officers labored to convince him that Hitler's Germany was lost...
Whose Punishment? In his statement on war crimes, Mr. Grew reaffirmed past U.S. declarations for rigorous punishment of war criminals. But he evaded the central point of controversy-how to punish Nazis for crimes against their own countrymen...