Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...willingly told the tale of his crazy pilgrimage. He and his fellow plotter had known each other only two weeks. But they had agreed that the President should die, and that it was their sacred duty to kill him. Why? With flowery Latin eloquence, Oscar Collazo cried that his countrymen had been "enslaved" and that Puerto Rico's politicians were "tools" of the United States...
...doing it," shouted Harry Truman. "Go to the polls . . . vote for yourselves, vote for your future . . . vote for the Democratic ticket." Then he went off to Independence, Mo. to follow his own advice, from there planned to return to Washington to hear how many of his fellow countrymen thought his advice was right...
...will be gone. Then you'll grow more English and fine." At his first meeting with Johnson he apologized: "Mr. Johnson, indeed I come from Scotland, but I cannot help it." Johnson's famous reply: "Sir, that, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help...
Even his fellow countrymen found "H.G." a bit of a puzzle, almost a cross between a card and a cad. Unlike most of the distinguished British authors of the century, he was neither an English gentleman nor an American expatriate. His father worked as a hired gardener, later owned a pottery shop which brought him little success; his mother, a onetime housemaid, became a rather incapable housekeeper. His own visage, which, in his journalistic heyday, beamed down on Londoners from billboards and the sides of the city's big red buses, was unrefined, not to say coarse; his voice...
...wife sent a letter to the secretary in 1941, explaining her husband's activities and mentioning the "hopeless tragedy of his countrymen's life." Speaking of the violence in Puerto Rico, she said "the burying yards and jails have been filled with Puerto Rican patriots and unjust indictments are daily occurrences...