Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...types in the photographs accompanying your [Oct. 11] article . . . What a profound impression this must make-these Americans, always broadcasting about freedom and equality and the "American way of life" and what a great little country we are . . . As an American living abroad, I find myself wondering about my countrymen, especially that superior breed of bigots south of the Mason-Dixon line. R. N. WHITE Rafha, Saudi Arabia...
After showing his countrymen the unusual spectacle of a dictator earnestly running for President, Cuba's Strongman Fulgencio Batista suddenly found himself running all alone this week. In a dramatic announcement only 36 hours before the polls were to open, his only opponent, ex-President Ramón Grau San Martin, withdrew from the race. Batista smilingly announced that the elections (for Congress, governorships and local offices as well as for the presidency) would go off as scheduled. But Grau's walkout had spoiled the strongman's plan. Batista's main purpose in scheduling elections...
Undaunted by the reserve of his countrymen, Old Chancellor Adenauer made an optimistic report to his Bundestag: "The crisis of the Western community has, we hope, been happily overcome." He bade it give its approval to the London agreement...
...birthday and the end of his first term as President in early 1793. Long established as first in war biography, Historian Freeman marshals his facts as massively and meticulously as ever in his first study of the mature Washington in peacetime. Washington shines clearly in the hearts of his countrymen as he moves north through a veritable tunnel of rustic triumphal arches to take his first presidential oath at New York City's Federal Hall. By this time "the quenchless ambition of an ordered mind" disclosed in Freeman's portrait of the early years has mellowed to massive...
...third of its production centers could be destroyed. Over this prospect the U.S. does not grieve or tremble. In a field of tension between unprecedented poles of security and insecurity, this superlatively blessed and threatened people stands with apparent aplomb. Mrs. Clark would be proud of her countrymen...