Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elders, which helps. He typifies the millions of middle-class young Britons who went through the war, understand the element of Christian generosity in the Labor movement which saves it from tawdriness, and desperately want to build an improving life for themselves and contribute to the progress of their countrymen. Selwyn Lloyd may advance slowly, but he will advance surely...
...always been locked on with suspicion, said Pothan. The gift of wheat this country sent to India last spring was received warily because most of his countrymen expected American troops to follow...
...thousand marines who died in Tarawa's 76 hours Morison says convincingly: "Not one died in vain, nor did the 2,101 men wounded in action and who recovered, suffer in vain. Every man there, lost or maimed, saved at least ten of his countrymen as the Navy plunged deep into enemy waters and sailed irresistibly through Micronesia. All honor, then, to the fighting heart of the United States Marine. Let that small stretch of coral sand . . be remembered as terrible indeed, but glorious, and the seedbed for victory...
Drum Taps, by Walt Whitman (Nov. 22, 1865): "Mr. Whitman . . . has no ear, no sense of the melody of verse . . . fortunately [he has] better claims on the gratitude of his countrymen than any he will ever derive from his vocation as a poet . . . His duties in the hospitals at Washington during the war will confer honor on his memory when Leaves of Grass are withered and Drum Taps have ceased to vibrate...
...their choice of doctors. As Duke of York and then as King, George VI took as his family doctor a homeopath, Sir John Weir, who had attended both his mother and elder brother Edward. A genial Scot with a sporran full of jokes on himself and his countrymen, 72-year-old Sir John is flanked by two other family physicians: Welsh-born Dr. Daniel Davies, 51, a topnotch pathologist, and Sir Horace Evans, 48, specialist in diseases of the kidneys, urinary tract and arteries...