Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pressure brought to bear on Boris Pasternak by his own countrymen should shock every liberal in the Western world. I wonder if America's liberals have sent their protests against this barbarism to the leaders of Russia? I believe Adlai Stevenson and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt should make their disgust widely known as should our own government leaders. If our liberals cannot attack this phony Communist love for artists, they should defrost their phony liberal heads...
...keep the army sound and intact and out of politics." Graduate of Sandhurst and Commander-in-Chief since 1951 of the army of the democratic state of Pakistan, Ayub is understandably proud of a fighting force considered the best east of the Suez. So are his countrymen. If you ask them to tell you about their country, most Pakistanis will begin with their army rather than their feudal agricultural system, ramshackle economy, or spectacularly corrupt politics. Today, however, as chief of the new military dictatorship of Pakistan, General Ayub finds himself, and his army, in the midst of politics...
...observer has suggested, "to try to make the country pure by whacking it with the flat of his broadsword." His expressed eagerness to settle the Kashmir dispute must be set against the intransigence of his recent statements on the subject, which, though no doubt appealing to many of his countrymen, won't solve anything. General Ayub has been a conservative man. Though he may have to produce some radical programs, the political inexperience of his advisors will prove no help to him in making them stick. Already he has found himself obliged to return some of the business of civil...
Young Germans have accepted military conscription without much murmur, but also without enthusiasm. Strauss has silenced those Germans who yelled "Bellhops" at his parading recruits by junking their first U.S.-style uniforms, with Eisenhower jackets and laced shoes, and presenting his countrymen with the sight of soldiers in tightly belted tunics and clumping leather boots and officers in the old familiar Wehrmacht-style high-peaked caps...
After his own countrymen repudiated him by voting for De Gaulle's constitution, Harbi was in danger of being removed from office. He fell back on the favorite strategy of desperate Somali politicians-exploiting the bloody rivalry between the Somalis and the nomadic Dana-kils who make up nearly half the population. When a Somali or a Danakil decides to do an enemy in, he usually seals his victory by castrating his victim...