Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Germany's economic expansion is slowing down," warned Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard in a radio speech to his countrymen last week. Gold and foreign-currency reserves shrank by $150 million in the last two months of 1957, construction was off by 4%, coal production had declined in 1957 for the first time since World War II, and unemployment had reached its highest level (1,200,000) since 1954. Privately, Erhard told friends that the German economy has paused for "a breathing spell." Confronted with the added threat of strikes by transport, coal and bank workers demanding shorter hours...
...equally naked Nuba (whose chief adornments are grotesque, cicatrized tribal scars on cheeks and foreheads), and, along the Red Sea coast, the mop-haired Hadendowa (Kipling's Fuzzy-Wuzzies, who "broke a British square"). Inevitably, the primitive southerners distrust and dislike their more sophisticated Arabic countrymen in the north, who used to swoop down on their villages and carry off their sons and daughters for sale as slaves in the marts of the Middle East. The north, in turn, is beset by factionalism among its Moslem religious leaders...
...farce with a tragic ending is the characteristic Irish art form, the life and death of Sir Roger Casement make him a great Irishman. Many of his countrymen believe him to be so and periodically ask the British government to yield custody of his remains, which lie in quicklime within the walls of Pentonville Prison. Casement was hanged for treason in 1916, three months after the Dublin uprising of Easter Week. In the midst of World War I, he had landed from a German submarine on the coast of Kerry, ostensibly to foment rebellion. A boatload of rifles...
...father of the H-bomb" and now associate director of the University of California's Radiation Laboratory. Teller was uniquely endowed by his scientific talents, a first-hand familiarity with Middle European tyranny and his deep affection for his adopted U.S. to see what most of his fellow countrymen could not see. Of all the U.S. scientists on campus, in government, in industry, Teller worked hardest and most belligerently to send the warning that the Russians were coming. Looking beyond the obvious dangers of Russian advances in particular fields of military technology, e.g., rocket engines, Teller finds a more...
...plot-but Author Françoise Mallet-Joris, still only 27, has already proved (The Red Room, TIME, July 16, 1956) that she can reach elbow-deep into suppressed human feelings and dredge up more than enough to fill out her simple framework. She writes about her heavy provincial countrymen with the tough sureness of a Belgian farmer calculating the points of a work horse...