Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...working hard and doing well, the 50 million free enterprisers in West Germany have already written a lesson not only for their 17 million countrymen in East Germany but for other European nations still hobbled by all manner of production and currency controls...
Richard Nixon has been getting a pretty good press lately, topped off by TIME'S cover story [Jan. 18]. But now that he is the Vice President, is he any less the cheap political huckster who insulted the intelligence of his countrymen a year ago last fall? Some of us are not forgetting that this is the same "Trickie Dickie" of the fighting Irish wife, the cloth coat and Checkers. Remembering that irresponsible tearjerker he gave on television, could we ever have faith in anything he tells us? Long live...
Said one P.W. "My tongue fails to describe how happy I feel." Nationalist China, bursting with pride that so many of its countrymen have chosen the Nationalist side when choosing was difficult, was determined to give the prisoners a rousing welcome. But it also wanted to be sure that no unregenerate Communist agents slipped in unrecognized in the general rejoicing. Charged with the duties both of welcome and of careful screening is the officer who has emerged as Nationalist China's rising man. He is Lieut. General Chiang Ching-kuo, eldest son of the 66-year-old Generalissimo Chiang...
...hated land of the Hun and the Nazi back to moral respectability and had earned himself a seat in the highest councils of the Western powers. Though she still lacked a formal peace treaty, and the Iron Curtain fenced her off from half her land and from 18 million countrymen, Konrad Adenauer's West Germany last year emerged as the strongest country on the Continent save Soviet Russia...
...later, the worst fate befell Bill Dean. In fact, he became the most famous American soldier ever to be taken prisoner, and his fame came in large part from the way in which he had conducted himself after his capture by North Korean Communists. Dean's fellow countrymen understood that the totalitarians fight for men's minds and use lies and torture to make prisoners cooperate with them. Dean became a new kind of hero, a symbol of the hundreds of Americans who, under fiendish pressure, had remained loyal to their country...