Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...monarchists, who fear that a reawakening of Falangist activity may mean the end of Pretender Don Juan's chances of getting the throne; 3) the army, one of whose spokesmen said: "We prefer commemorating wars in which the beaten enemy was a foreign invader, not misled countrymen"; 4) the church, expressing itself through a Catholic Action leader: "Civil war is sometimes a necessity, but always hideous. The wound must be healed and forgotten, if we don't wish to perpetuate the source of man's evil: hatred...
Wyndham Lewis knows only one way to use a pen-as a spit. Over hissing coals of satire and irony, the British author-artist has broiled intellectual quacks (The Apes of God), ailing civilizations (Time and Western Man), and his own middle-class countrymen (Rotting Hill). Like Bernard Shaw, he outraged Britons in the '303 by following the trail of a sawdust Caesar, Adolf Hitler. But in 1937, when Shaw was busy touting Superman Stalin, Lewis became one of the first writers to bare the tyrannic fraud of Communism in a novel called The Revenge for Love. By ripping...
...patriotic interest in the country's future, and most of them tacitly support the guerrillas (almost all Chinese) whom a large British army has been doggedly fighting for three years. No matter what stern measures the British take, the guerrillas seem always to find a haven among their countrymen...
...countrymen, many of whom thought him wrongheaded and reckless as a politician, honored Schumacher as a man. A spokesman for his bitter political foe, the right-wing Free Democratic Party, said of him: "Great opponents are blessings of fate, even if they work fiercely against us and are a great discomfort...
...blind longing to escape from the torture of watching other women with full lives and satisfied instincts." As the Senator builds steadily toward the presidency, Mrs. Lee hops off the bandwagon. "The bitterest part of all this horrid story," she concludes, "is that nine out of ten of our countrymen would say I had made a mistake...