Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...awkward, gangling lubber beside the driver gravely touched his two-star cap. General Charles de Gaulle, Commander in Chief, had come to watch his countrymen redeem themselves in the fierce last round of the battle for Italy. For the Frenchmen and noncoms (if not for the dark Goums, shiny Senegalese and swarthy Algerian riflemen who fought with them) it was the start of the battle for France...
Confessional. Maugham disarmingly calls attention to the fact that he is making his first attempt to write a novel about Americans: "I don't think one can ever really know any but one's own countrymen. ... I do not pretend that [the characters] are American as Americans see themselves; they are American seen through an English...
Dunn's big moment came in an off-day session of the 1943 legislature. The back-countrymen were up to their usual sport of baiting the big city-Minneapolis. Up rose Farmer Dunn to say, amid general astonishment, that he had heard enough: Minneapolis was a fine city-the whole state was proud of her. Never had such words been heard from a dirt-farmer legislator. Minneapolis' Mayor Marvin Kline wrote a friendly letter-and so began a beautiful friendship...
...Nazis did have the sense to install as their No. 1 puppet a Slovak who commands a real following: a canny, bulletheaded nationalist and priest named Joseph Tiso. With political craft and German aid, Tiso has: 1) fed his countrymen relatively well; 2) provided state jobs; 3) promoted Slovaks in government service; 4) suppressed pro-Czechs, by deporting them or threatening...
...first won election as Vice President, then arranged an army revolt, kicked out the President and took over the country. A dark and slender Indian who calls himself a theosophist, he used to proclaim: "The invisible legions follow me." After twelve years of his rule, his countrymen are ready to believe...