Word: countrymen
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Salinger was, of course, kidding about his countrymen. Reciprocally, the descendants of Tocqueville do entertain a continuing, if critical, interest in things American. Salinger has carved a new career as the American in Paris who provides Frenchmen with native insights into the inscrutable Yankee mind. As a grand reporter (roving editor) specializing in U.S. affairs for the French newsmagazine L 'Express, he has become the most prominent American apologist and explicator in Paris since CBS Commentator David Schoenbrun left in 1962. Salinger presides jovially over several music and film festivals in France. He is a regular commentator for Europe...
Both soldiers will surely meet with Prime Minister Ian Smith, who last week told his countrymen, "I cannot see this [British-American] initiative succeeding...
...rescue, three members of the Baader-Meinhof gang were found dead in their prison cells in Stuttgart-almost certainly as the result of a suicide pact. Their anarchist allies in the Red Army Faction took up the cry of "political murder," and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt warned his countrymen to expect revenge...
...potential undoubtedly is there. Roosevelt's presidency hardly lacked the political conflict and turmoil that gives birth to powerful historical drama. His glib tongue seldom strained to reduce the quirks of everyday life to irresistibly quotable witticisms or the sentiments of his countrymen to stirring rhetoric. Schary's script, however, never allows enough room for the full power of Roosevelt's formidable personality, as portrayed by the ubiquitous Robert Vaughn, to reveal itself. Before a scene can build sufficient dramtic tension, an unsatisfying and petty denouement intrudes. Before the audience can become relaxed with Roosevelt's humorous side, the script...
...years afterward, Cao's countrymen traded and established settlements near the river's mouth. But they did not go too far inland; 100 miles upstream lay a series of 32 cataracts now known as Livingstone Falls. A stretch of white water, appropriately named the Cauldron of Hell, stopped early explorers as effectively as if it were the edge of the earth...