Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the Hungarian water poloists went on to win the finals, they stood with some of their countrymen at Melbourne's airport and sadly said goodbye to others who climbed into an airplane and headed back to Europe. The band played the stirring music of Isten Aldd Meg a Magyart (Lord of Heaven Bless Our Land) as the plane roared away, and those on the ground wondered whether to return home or start new lives elsewhere...
...schoolroom-a plaque was unveiled one day last week that read: "A great man passed this way in defense of freedom. He showed the capacity for making great nations march together more truly united than ever before." Elsewhere in Britain, however, Dwight D. Eisenhower and his countrymen were having an unusually rough time of it. The stately Times feared "a Britain united in anti-Americanism-and there is a growing danger of this . . ." The less stately Sunday Times talked of "the present rigorously anti-British policies of President Eisenhower," and added: "A belief is spreading that American policy is controlled...
...lingering trace of doublethink, however, there were encouraging signs that bit by bit the Asian and African nations were coming to recognize that Russian imperialism was just as immoral as any other kind. Three weeks ago India's U.N. Delegate Krishna Menon had outraged many, including his own countrymen (see below), by voting against a resolution which called upon Hungary to admit U.N. observers. Last week, under pressure from New Delhi, hot-eyed Krishna Menon did an about-face and, together with the Ceylonese and Indonesian delegates, sponsored a resolution urging Hungary to comply with the very demand India...
...Although she fell ill with pleurisy, she enlisted with the Spanish Loyalists, vowing never to use the gun she was issued. Before she died in England during World War II, she starved herself by refusing, though weak and ill, to eat more than the wartime food ration allotted her countrymen in France...
...Commons last week, "will prove whether what we did was right or wrong," and, he added, "I believe that history will show that we have chosen aright." But as keeper of the national purse strings, it was doughty Harold's unpleasant duty to point out to his countrymen that whatever the verdict of history might be, it was bound to prove expensive...