Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...federation. A Dutch-trained engineer, and an Asia-trained nationalist, he had spent 25 of his 49 years fighting for Indonesia's independence. The Japanese made him Indonesia's puppet ruler, and he collaborated with them; later he explained that he did it to teach his countrymen how to fight the white...
...visit in the U.S., Canada and Britain, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru arrived back home just in time to celebrate his 60th birthday. Cheering crowds greeted him at the airport and along the route to a huge public meeting in Bombay, where he accepted from admiring countrymen a $30,000 trinket: a foot-long miniature of the Asoka Pillar (whose crest is the Great Seal of India), made of gold and twinkling with 60 diamonds...
...dubbed "eccentric" by his fellow countrymen, a Briton must be eccentric indeed-almost out of his wits, in fact. One contemporary Briton who unquestionably deserved the title was the late Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank (1886-1926). Novelist Firbank was an esthete whose behavior was so "odd" that even such a case-hardened bird-watcher as Sir Osbert Sitwell is moved to confess in an introduction that Friend Firbank must have felt a bit "hedged off" in a private world that was noticeably "different from that of others...
Friends & Countrymen...
...University named him visiting professor of physics. One day last week, Yukawa dismissed his class for the day and reported to the office of Columbia's President Dwight Eisenhower. There he received a warm handshake and hearty congratulations. At 42, Hideki Yukawa had become the first of his countrymen to win a Nobel Prize. The $30,000 prize in physics was awarded for the theory Yukawa had propounded 14 years ago. (The Nobel Prize in chemistry went to University of California Professor William F. Giauque -pronounced Gee-oke-for his studies in the behavior of matter at very...