Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...banks and deal no more in grotesquely inflated reichsmarks (1,000 for a carton of U.S. cigarettes). As economic boss of occupied West Germany, Erhard courageously exchanged only 6½ Deutsche marks for every 100 of the old marks, thus wiping out the cash savings of most of his countrymen for the second time in a generation.* A laissez-faire economist, Erhard followed currency reform by abolishing price controls and rationing. "The only chance I had," said Erhard, "was that people were telling themselves: 'Our situation is so desperate that this crazy man should have his opportunity.' Miracles...
...decade before his death, Bob Kennedy put the Red threat and the New York Daily News headlines in the back of his mind, took a long look at the American people and decided the needed help. He may not have lived long enough to transmit to his countrymen the compassion and concern he discovered in himself. Maybe that's why Yenan looks attractive.C...
...rejected by its workers, De Gaulle saw his government crumbling beneath him, Paris hostile and ready to explode, and opposition politicians closing ranks to cut him down. A lesser man might have quit; so serious was the situation that De Gaulle in fact considered it. But like his countrymen at the Marne 54 years before, he decided to stand his ground and fight. France responded, and by sheer force of will-and with some help from the French army-De Gaulle triumphed in perhaps the greatest crisis in his long service to France...
...South Korea, wages-paid in dollars -sent home by countrymen fighting and working in South Viet Nam account for $62 million a year in sorely needed foreign-exchange earnings. And such pleasure haunts as Hong Kong and Bangkok enjoy a windfall-$100 million a year, all told-from rest-and-recreation visits by Viet Nam-based U.S. servicemen...
...printed new calling cards introducing their executives by name only. Many student demonstrators now disdain to address university rectors as Magnifizenz and deans as Spektabilitat, Hans-George Schnitzer, whose own title is Bundesvorsitzender des Fachausschusses fur Umgangsformen-federal chairman of the Expert Committee for Good Behavior-is urging his countrymen to "recognize only those titles earned academically or by public election...