Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among many of his own countrymen Eden basked in momentary approval as a man who had made a good try. When the consequences are measured, including the damage to Britain's moral reputation and to the Middle East's security, Anthony Eden might in time look something less of a hero to his countrymen...
...want to stay here," he explained, "If I cannot be of service to my countrymen." He said his aims were to secure "freedom, independence, and security" for Hungary. He criticized the U.N. for not living up to its mottoes and warned that America's independence was also endangered by Soviet aggrandizement...
...shall fight a bitter battle. We shall fight from village to village, from house to house, from place to place, because each one of you, my fellow countrymen, is a soldier. We shall not surrender. I promise you, my brethren, that I shall fight with you to the last drop of my blood...
...fourth gubernatorial term. Aware that Gene was seriously ill on election day, some supporters had cast write-in votes for his son, gone out to marshal dead voters whose names could shoot his total higher. Now as the rain pattered outside, and shouting, drinking countrymen watched from the gallery, the legislature considered the two men eligible to succeed the departed Gene. With smug solemnity and a 161-87 vote, it chose Herman Talmadge...
...commissioner of agriculture; he had once shipped Georgia hogs to Chicago to find a higher price, wasted $11,000 in state funds. Gene laughed off the criticism in his speeches to rural voters: "Sure, I stole it, but I stole it for you." The explanation delighted the hard-pressed countrymen. They rolled up the Talmadge vote. The Talmadges moved into the ugly stone governor's mansion in Atlanta's posh Ansley Park. Because Gene and Mattie (known to two generations of Georgians as "Miss Mitt") wanted to give the mansion a homey atmosphere, they shocked neighbors by tethering...