Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arms. The war, for all practical purposes, was over. "A System of Policy." About to leave the Army, Washington wrote (in a letter presented last week to Princeton University) : "Having no reward to ask for myself, if I have been so happy as to obtain the approbation of my countrymen, I shall be satisfied. It still rests with them to compleat my washes by adopting such a system of Policy as will ensure the future reputation, tranquility, happiness and glory of this extensive Empire." The man is all in that passage-his humility, his pride, his sense of honor...
...Colombia's popular President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, newly installed in office after last month's army coup. "I want my first words in Colombia," said Eisenhower, "to be a tribute to the courage displayed in action by the heroic Colombian soldiers in Korea." Proud that his countrymen are the only Latin Americans fighting for the U.N., General Rojas said that they would stay as long as needed...
...arsenal included no un-British Activities Committee. He went to the bottom of French revolutionary ideas, explained them in terms his countrymen could understand, sharpened his own opposed principles, and expressed them with clarity and passion. Jean Jacques Rousseau, in his naivete, believed that man had been all good in "a state of nature," and that he was only corrupted by wrong social institutions. Sweep these away, substitute institutions blueprinted by "reason," and man emerges perfect or, at least, readily perfectible...
...Winston Churchill, the Briton most admired by Americans, who brewed the Great Tempest. His demand for a sovereign conference of the world's leading powers (TIME, May 18) had fired his countrymen's imaginations, and in domestic terms at least, it was well timed to appeal to coronation-time sentiments about a second Elizabethan Age. Behind well-phrased compliments, Churchill had adroitly sniped at the U.S., berated the truce negotiators for dillydallying, taunted Washington for its unwillingness to meet the Russians face to face. He was on popular ground and he knew it, for Britons...
...last they set sail for home. On the way, Cinqé quarreled with the missionaries, the other Africans grew restive. At Sierra Leone, when they saw many of their countrymen, they flung off their clothes to show their tribal tattoos. The missionaries were aghast. Worse yet, some of the Africans deserted the mission, hit out for home. Cinqué went with them...