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Word: countrymen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coaxingly assisted his blind father and 13-year-old sister to pack their bag & baggage, got a berth on a West African ship and sailed down to the Gold Coast. Last week blind Papafio went on the miue (Government Station ZOY) to tell his three and a half million countrymen how the blitz was going on in England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOLD COAST: Warrior's Son | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...belged finally: 'My countrymen, I urge you to hold on steadfastly until victory is achieved. Britain shall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOLD COAST: Warrior's Son | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...reported to be up to 100,000 Japanese troops, bubonic plague had broken out. Large Japanese troop concentrations were being made on Manchukuo's Russian border. Japanese Minister to Washington Kaname Wakasugi had telephoned an interview from Los Angeles to Tokyo's Nichi Nichi, explaining to his countrymen that the U.S. meant business, warned them to be mighty careful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Big Shot-At | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

...failed so miserably in teaching our southern neighbors to like "north" Americans, it seems hardly necessary to refute the asinine charges made against us-in general. My experience has been limited to the past 15 years, but even that short period should better qualify me to condemn my fellow-countrymen down here than one with the ripe experience of one year's stay among Argentines and Brazilians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 18, 1941 | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

...Belgian refugee named Victor de Laveleye first had the idea. In a shortwave broadcast from London to his countrymen he asked them to chalk the letter V (for victoire) in public places as a sign of confidence in their deliverance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Frivolous V | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

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