Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alsop pursued the contrasts to Dhahran, where Saudi Arabian workmen drew top pay as technicians at Aramco's vast refinery while some of their countrymen bought and sold slaves ($150 for an able-bodied man, $300 for a boy and $600 for a girl). Though he reported that King Saud was using his U.S. oil dollars to finance Arab nationalism's whole anti-Western drive-paying some $500,000 a month to politicians and editors in the Middle East-Alsop found him playing the role reluctantly, the captive of the movement centering in Egypt...
...ever made. Perhaps for the good reason that no Irishman, however eloquent, can have any confidence that he will not be interrupted by another eloquent Irishman, Irish writers are at their best when they keep it short. O'Flaherty shares mastery of the short story form with fellow countrymen Frank O'Connor, Sean O'Faolain and Joyce of The Dubliners...
...talked of new hydroelectric projects, highway construction and agriculture, then came to the main point of his talk. Faced with growing public uneasiness over inflation and opposition claims that he is little more than a puppet manipulated by War Minister Henrique Teixeira Lott (TIME, May 21), Kubitschek assured his countrymen that he had "enough authority, energy and fighting spirit to guarantee a full five-year term which will not fall into the abyss of government marked by precariousness and instability." Raising his voice, he added, "From the people I deserve confidence, and I ask that they wait for the results...
...eyes of the local aristocracy, he was Scotland's greatest artist and the equal of London's Romney, Lawrence and Gainsborough. A Highland chief, when entertaining him, gave the command: "Bonnets off to Sir Henry Raeburn." To his studio in a steady procession came such famed countrymen as Diarist James Boswell, Economist Adam Smith, Philosopher David Hume and Novelist Sir Walter Scott. With complete self-assurance Raeburn painted them all. In nearly 1,000 portraits he set down, with strong brush strokes and delicate modeling, the gallant, romantic air of the handsome, purposeful Scots...
...culture and an object of curiosity and adulation rarely equaled. On his 79th birthday 600,000 Parisians paraded past his home. When he died, just 71 years ago this month, he was laid in state beneath the Arc de Triomphe, then escorted by 2,000,000 of his countrymen to his tomb in the Pantheon...