Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wilderness a respect for Anglo-American law. But they also brought the hatreds and half-digested lessons of Reconstruction years and a socio-economic system that would constantly conflict with the tradition of Anglo-American justice as those traditions lived and evolved among the vast majority of their countrymen...
...Kingoro Hashimoto, 65, the colonel who, on his own initiative, ordered the 1937 shelling of three British gunboats in the Yangtze River and sank the U.S. gunboat Panay. Near war's end, Hashimoto exhorted his countrymen to make suicidal attacks. Incarceration did not ease the colonel's bitterness. Grim-faced as ever, he rasped: "I am angry from the bottom of my heart at the injustice and irrationality of the war-crimes trials. I feel strongly my responsibility for our defeat. I apologize deeply to the Japanese people...
Major Thompson is a retired, red-faced British officer who wears a bowler hat and barks "By Jove!" His name is, of course, Marmaduke, but Humorist Daninos, not wishing to make his countrymen die laughing, has not named the major's son Fauntleroy. The major's first wife, Ursula, was a British horsewoman with a face like a mare, feet like briefcases and that aversion to sex which most Britons have had since they became neighbors of the French. "Do as I did," Ursula's mother advises, "just close your eyes and think of England!" After Ursula...
...elected after his term runs out in 1958. But a dedicated man can get a lot done in three years, and it was very much in character that the President ended his midterm report with a renewed call to action: "Poverty, ignorance and disease still plague many of our countrymen ... It is our obligation to face these problems, even though we know we cannot end this tremendous task...
While Butler and Eden discussed present and future dangers, millions of their countrymen lay on the beaches in the rare August sunshine, enjoying the highest standard of living in British history...