Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...introduced Western-style leads. "All my staff were sure they'd be ruined," she recalls, "that my poor mother would be ruined, that their mothers would be ruined." But "Greeks like everything that everybody else likes," says the ambitious publisher, who is on a crusade to haul her countrymen into the 20th century...
...word of the impending bank strike got around, depositors lined up for blocks, withdrew some $31 million before the vaults could swing shut on a remaining $775 million. That left some $322 million in out-of-bank circulation, just enough, by most estimates, to keep the Republic and its countrymen going...
Bitten Bettors. With Britain struggling to defeat inflation at home, modernize its outmoded industrial plant, and raise exports so as to end its balance-of-payments deficit, most of Callaghan's countrymen were braced for higher income, sales, tobacco and liquor taxes, and perhaps higher down payments on installment purchases. They got nothing of the sort...
Dispensable Cog. Regardless of the sinuous internal motives behind the uprising, many U.S. editorialists and cartoonists faulted President Johnson for Ky's plight, arguing that the Administration had been overly enthusiastic in its support of the Premier, making him appear an American puppet in the eyes of his countrymen. In fact, Johnson had been scrupulously careful in his meeting with Ky, proceeding on the logical assumption that Ky was no more expendable than any of the other nine members of the Saigon junta. Indeed, Ky has never considered himself an indispensable cog in the Saigon government. A few months...
...sense of vision." Wearing a gold-embroidered purple sari, her toenails painted red, Mrs. Gandhi chatted tête-a-tête with the President before and after the meal, left as soon as Violinist Isaac Stern finished his performance and before the dancing began. Explained she: "My countrymen would not approve if they heard I had been dancing...