Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still passionately admired his father, bitterly resented his fellow countrymen's treatment of him. Baudouin began to show a few signs of royal temper, as when he received an antiroyalist minister and left him standing during the audience, or when he snapped at a tutor who was repeating himself: "You said that three days ago." Although his entourage treated him more & more as a King, his father still seemed to regard him as a boy. At lunch, he would admonish Baudouin to take his elbows off the table. One of the rare visitors to Laeken described a day last...
...Trujillo, giving up the presidency does not necessarily mean giving up power. His countrymen learned that much in 1938. The year before, Trujillo's soldiers butchered thousands of Haitians who had settled on Dominican land near the Haitian border. The massacre made the regime so unpopular with other American governments that Trujillo decided to "retire" for a while, installed a puppet President for the 1938-42 term. * But the Benefactor's dictatorial grip remained as tight as ever...
...Korea towards both sides, Rim observed, because of the initial division of his country after the Japanese defeat. When asked his views concerning the South Korean government, Rim points out that the 38th parallel is merely an artificial line made for political reasons, and that he and his countrymen do not want any kind of a separation...
Italian art these days is a three-ring circus. Painter Filippo de Pisis, 55, seems as out of place in it as a hummingbird in a cage of acrobatic bears. While his countrymen have been shooting off futuristic fireworks or ponderously balancing metaphysics and Marxism, he has darted and hovered, recording the surface of things, in glancing, wing-light strokes...
...spots, Author Simenon writes with deft satire about his fellow countrymen. Where he tries for something like tragic irony, he achieves only the stale, sentimental cliche about the iron mask of success hiding suffering human clay...