Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with his bleakly sardonic view of the human race, of madmen and brutes. He is interrogated as a spy, but his unabashed cowardice confounds the military. The enemy colonel, a man of some humor, decides to let him stay in his greenhouse-with the remark that if all his countrymen were like that, the war would be over very soon. The greenhouse thus becomes a "glass house," British soldiers' slang for a military prison. But it is a greenhouse to the prisoner. In civil life he had been a noted amateur gardener. Deftly, he sets about restoring to life...
...events of the week had a visible effect on Sukarno. Although he still refused to condemn the Communists, he was nervous enough to allow in a speech to his countrymen that, in a general way, what had happened last October had been "treason...
...violently injured feelings of the people of this region." Ojukwu also repeated his past threats to lead the East out of the Nigerian Federation entirely. "I have said before that the East would not secede unless she is forced out," he told the Ibos in a radio broadcast. "Fellow countrymen, the push has started...
...point in his speech, Marcos confessed: "I have been hounded by criticism that I am much too pro-American." Nonetheless, Marcos and his countrymen are far from tame clients. Nationalism is the most potent political force among the 32 million people who inhabit the 7,000 islands of the Philippine archipelago, and the form it usually takes is anti-Americanism...
...gold mines for jobs. But Chief Jonathan has something to offer in return: water for South Africa's parched farmlands, and some spit and polish for the image Verwoerd would like to project to the world as a man reasonable to his black neighbors if not his black countrymen. The talk was friendly enough, but except to be photographed, Verwoerd refused to appear in public with Chief Jonathan. So the visitor had his chat, adjourned to lunch in a private room in a hotel-and flew home the same day to avoid the embarrassment of no room in Pretoria...