Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bore a husky black man with fine-sculptured lips, melancholy eyes and a halo of frizzy black hair. The Right Honorable Kwame Nkrumah (pronounced En-kroom-ah), Bachelor of Divinity, Master of Arts, Doctor of Law and Prime Minister of the Gold Coast, waved a white handkerchief to his countrymen as they fought to touch the hem of his tunic. Then, as the band hit the groove, he jigged his broad shoulders in time to the whirling rhythm, and passed on, exalted. "You see," cried a delirious Gold Coaster, grabbing the arm of a wondering white man, "it is real...
...problem is to export more beef to pay for essential imports without making the beef-loving voters at home too unhappy. In the drive to bring down meat consumption, Health Minister Carrillo is trying to scare his countrymen into becoming vegetarians. At a busy corner in downtown Buenos Aires, he has put up a "Health Cooking" stand featuring free, meatless recipes, and a huge blackboard warning of disorders, from gallstones to high blood pressure, which he insists are caused by excessive meat-eating...
...honor of the day, which was also his 75th birthday, the stern old soldier thawed a little and permitted his inflation-harried countrymen, many of whom had voted for him as an economic savior, to celebrate his return in a national fiesta. From suburbs and provinces they poured into the huge square outside La Moneda, the presidential palace, to watch open-air performances by some 1,200 actors, dancers and musicians on seven different stages. Noisily, they cheered the general in his sky-blue uniform, the parading troops, the flat-hatted cowboy who galloped up to the general and handed...
...very qualities that make some of his countrymen distrust Dean Acheson and his policies were just what were needed to make him a success at U.N. last week. He set out to convince the doubters, the neutralists, the holdbacks and the timid in the General Assembly on the Tightness of the U.S.-and U.N.-action in Korea. To diplomats nagged by the conviction that Americans are illogical, explosive, and unreasoningly bellicose, the U.S. Secretary of State spoke for nearly three hours from a lawyer's brief that was well prepared and delivered in aloof and detached fashion. Speaking...
...Prohibits closed-shop agreements between employers and unions. 58. Japanese voters gave their Communist countrymen a frightful drubbing, reduced their representation in the Diet's lower chamber from 22 to: 1. None...