Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...including J. Robert Oppenheimer. Says Teller: "I want to claim credit in one respect only. I believed and continued to believe in the possibility and the necessity of developing the thermonuclear bomb." Wholly aside from his theoretical contributions, this is Teller's lien upon the gratitude of his countrymen, that he was not diverted from the path of scientific advance by confusion over nonscientific considerations...
...rulers out of his homeland and went on to free the neighboring nations. Bolivar had no illusions that he had brought U.S.-style democracy to the liberated lands; he died predicting that in the Americas, "Ecuador will be the convent, Colombia the university, Venezuela the barracks." He knew his countrymen well; soldiers have ruled Venezuela through most of its history. Many of them were from the high western Andes, where to celebrate their own character, the mountain men sing...
...care to such affairs of state that Pérez Jiménez drew his countrymen's attention. Amid Cabinet meetings and the signing of decrees, they noted, the President worked in an astonishing schedule of extracurricular activities. He went to a garden party, an auto race and a pre-Mardi Gras fiesta, where he awarded the queen's prize. He tried out -a new rowboat and pitched the first ball of the Caribbean baseball tourney. He went to the touring Folies Bergère of Paris, whose nude cuties have been a scandalous success in Caracas...
Last week, after a flying trip to Yucatan, Agriculture Minister Gilberto Flores Muñoz said bluntly: "In my opinion the so-called Gran Ejido should be abolished." He could not have astonished his countrymen more if he had run naked across the Zocalo in Mexico City. Other public figures, wondering if Flores' statement could possibly have the approval of President Ruiz Cortines, waited for the Jovian thunderbolts to fly from the iron-faced Cardenas, still, even in retirement, the country's most powerful political figure...
...with the Loincloth. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has tried hard to live up to its founders' aims: "To unfold, enlighten and invigorate the talents of our countrymen." It got off to a glowing start when Philadelphia's Nicholas Biddle, then secretary to the U.S. Minister to France, flattered Napoleon into sending plaster casts of the classic statues his armies had just looted from Italy. From other donors came more contributions, including one shipment of paintings from Europe which was captured by the British in the War of 1812, released only after British courts held them...