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Word: countrymen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Proclaimed Nov. 23 as Thanksgiving Day, entreating "all my countrymen to appeal to the Most High" to "grant to all nations that peace which the world cannot give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Question Period | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

...countrymen want a unified Korea and a democratic government," Hahn-Been Lee, the only Korean in the University said yesterday. He predicted that elections for a unified Korean parliament will be held by May, and that democratic candidates will win a large majority...

Author: By Mary CHANNING Stokes, | Title: Son of Korean Farmer Studies at Business School; Returns Next Year | 10/6/1950 | See Source »

Junior's terrifying new problem of survival was the problem of millions of his countrymen. For the first time a great many Americans were beginning to realize that the U.S. had become the target of a determined and ruthless enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVIL DEFENSE: The City Under the Bomb | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

...push us off the map yet; if they wait a few more weeks, we will have brought to Korea the biggest part of our front-line fighting force . . . Then, a real all-out offensive, in which the enemy commits all his reserves, plus up to 200,000 China-trained countrymen, plus his planes . . . could actually wipe out a major part of our trained and equipped ground forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 25, 1950 | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...London's weekly Picture goer, British Actor Rex ("Henry VIII") Harrison told his countrymen what life is like in Hollywood: "The whole thing is too big, too impersonal . . . Domestic servants are fantastically expensive and are a lordly race, indeed. I was amused and amazed . . . when couples we employed arrived in magnificent Cadillacs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: To Remember You By | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

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