Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nine young French Canadians came home last week, modestly bearing two medals apiece: the Croix de guerre and a "resistance cross." These boys had seen action in Europe long before most of their countrymen...
Long after Peleliu had been secured, the "Gopher" went on with his work on Bloody Nose Ridge. The Gopher was a sniper, the best shot the Japanese had ever put against the Marines and more artful than most of his countrymen in the tricks of his trade...
...want to call the attention of my fellow countrymen to the intrigues of the enemy and of traitors. They are spreading all sorts of malicious rumors, predicting that there would be civil war and disunity in China. . . . I am afraid that some foreign commentators, unfamiliar with the real background, have also lent themselves unwittingly to a wider circulation of such rumors...
Britain mourned last week one of its best-loved comic artists. He was William Heath Robinson, England's Rube Goldberg, whose drawings of outrageously improbable contraptions have tickled his countrymen for 30 years. Bespectacled, mustached, 72 -year-old Robinson died of heart disease at his London home...
They had marched in triumph behind their bagpipes through the streets of Dieppe where 3,350 of their countrymen had fallen. They had cleared (and taken) not only Dieppe but Nieuport, Ostend and Zeebrugge. They had crossed the Somme, overrun Vimy Ridge and Ypres, where their fathers died. And now England, where they had spent four years of frustration, was immeasurably grateful to them because they had rolled up and tucked away the robot coast for good...