Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lima the junta sent secret police scurrying into the capital's luxurious Club Nacional, arrested dozens of "plotters." Blamed for the uprising were Montagne's small, conservative Civic Action party, the outlawed, impotent APRA party, and the surprised, feeble Peruvian Communists. Triumphant Odría told his countrymen: "The people of Peru have shown their unanimous support in my favor. The Arequipa rebellion was merely the exploitation of children and unwise ones who were tossed to sacrifice by wicked people." His onetime electoral rival Montagne was under arrest, awaiting deportation. In next month's election...
That, from grammar school to the day he died, was John Adams, the steady, sturdy New England farm boy whose forte, in private and public life, was planting cabbages of common sense. His countrymen rewarded him with the highest office they could bestow, yet they never quite forgave plain, plodding John for the aloofness that seemed to go with the common sense. He has been called the dullest of the Founding Fathers-not without reason, but certainly without enough...
Ninety-one-year-old Yukio Ozaki's stubbornness and his disagreement with his countrymen have not been confined to the cherry tree incident. All his life Ozaki has been a democrat, pacifist and internationalist in a land primarily dominated by soldiers and all-out nationalists. Paradoxically, Ozaki's heresies have won him wide respect and an unparalleled political career. Mayor of Tokyo for nine years and twice a cabinet minister, he was elected to the first Japanese Diet in 1890 and has been a member of every one since. Says his daughter, "Voting for father is a habit...
...this issue suggests that he does not realize that this is really the crux of the problem of two-way trade between Britain and the U.S. I believe that lecturing so complacently to the British under these circumstances is the sort of thing that can give your well-intentioned countrymen a reputation for brashness...
Hustling, bustling Indo-Chinese Nguyen Van Tan had little time for the political debate so popular with his countrymen in Paris. He was too busy with the practical side of politics. A onetime tailor and tourist guide in Saigon, Nguyen after World War II made himself invaluable to the French with his talent for purchasing hard-to-get rice for their forces fighting Indo-China's Communist Boss Ho Chi Minh. It was said in Saigon that Nguyen could buy rice in the very heart of a Ho-held village and ship it out to the French...