Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Future: stoutly maintaining that "it is false that France is sick, false that she is old," Gaillard argues that if his countrymen can be held to austerity for 18 months "we will finally find ourselves in the open...
...priest. Over the next quarter-century, and especially as head of the North Belgian Province (1938-46), Father Janssens developed a kind of subterranean reputation as a quiet, levelheaded administrator. No one was more surprised than the self-effacing Belgian when in 1946 he became the fourth of his countrymen to head the Jesuits...
...incisive character study of the two men. Bourvil's slow mind can concentrate only on moving the meat. But to Gabin, a famous artist mistaken by his dull-witted companion for a house painter, the meat is an abstraction, a philosophical means of testing the cowardice of his countrymen and the wits of his enemies. After slipping their burden past one more peril, Gabin roars with immense self-appreciation: "This pig's making a genius out of me!" He unsuccessfully tries to persuade Bourvil to hijack their load and be a black-marketeer himself, instead of a mere...
Biographer Magarshack. brought about "what amounted to a revolution in the minds of his countrymen...
Nikita Khrushchev last week presented himself to the world as first in war, first in peace and first in smacking down his countrymen. His propagandists boasted that Russia had fired the world's first successful intercontinental ballistic missile. His diplomats rejected President Eisenhower's disarmament plan on the ground that peace-loving Russia had already called for a ban on nuclear war. And in Moscow his press printed three stern private speeches delivered about the time of Khrushchev's recent power grab, all showing the Soviet boss talking and acting more and more like the Stalin...