Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discuss Vatican II. I would like to be as charitable as you toward John XXIII. I find myself, however, obligated to reserve my judgment until the spiritual ruler of 527 million people tells 30 million of them (those in Spain) to restore to 30,000 of their non-Catholic countrymen their civil liberties. Until that time, any pretense at Christian charity can be only that: a pretense...
...less humorous months in Italian history. On Sept. 3, the Allies cross from Sicily; on Sept. 8, the Badoglio government surrenders; on Sept. 10, the Germans start to take over; on Sept. 12, Mussolini escapes and sets up as a German puppet. Like most of his countrymen Lieut. Alberto Innocenzi (Alberto Sordi) gets dizzy on the seesaw of events...
...admiration," formed a Danish Free Corps to fight the Russians, and remained in power until 1943, when the Nazis were forced to appoint a military governor; his explanation was that he collaborated to spare his country from Nazi terror, and though he did not go to prison, his countrymen never forgave...
...employees call him, still arrives at his red-carpeted office every morning at 7:45, works through till 5 or 6 p.m. His principal worry now is that few other British executives are equally energetic and that British entry into the Common Market could be disastrous unless his countrymen learn to work harder. Said Sir Isaac with mocking irony to a recent conclave of London businessmen: "British companies may yet have to employ Frenchmen and Germans to enable them to compete successfully in the Common Market...
Among the anti-Europeans proved to be Angry Youngish Playwright John Osborne, 32. Looking back in anger from the south of France last year, Osborne had proclaimed his antipathies in a "letter of hate for you, my countrymen." Its message: "Damn you, England." But damn it, blood is thicker than water, and he has had a change of heart, possibly because of overexposure to what he calls "the forward-looking common supermarket jargon and high-minded greed." Said Osborne: "I, for one, am sick to death of all its ugly chromium pretense and am proud to settle for a modest...