Word: countrymen
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...German points out that this section violates traditional French legal thought based on Montesquieu's idea of separation of powers. The Nazi, in other words, argues the French side and the Frenchman sounds like a Nazi. This sad but true fact of history--that many Frenchmen sold their countrymen into the arms of the Nazis for the sake of their careers under what they believed would be a Nazi future in Europe--informs the conflict between collaborators and loyalists that runs throughout the film. When the fascist Minister of the Interior argues the importance of order in a "National Socialist...
Naturally, Americans watching the Games will be pulling for Young and Mueller and Hamill. Austrians will be banking on victory from their skiing heroes, and Russians will be cheering on their countrymen. But despite the rivalries and loyalties, the news from Innsbruck will boil down to something as old and transcendent as the idea of the Olympics-the lonely, private, consummate effort to exceed in the human arena, and in competition where the drama and grace of the match surpass all else...
When Nasser died five years ago, his weeping, bereaved countrymen mobbed his funeral by the millions and screamed: "Nasser is Allah's beloved...
...there. Because he was married to a Japanese woman, Park No Hak, 62, was able to leave the island in 1958, and he has made it his life's goal to bring the others out as well. "How could I forget Sakhalin?" he asks. "So many of my countrymen were languishing there, just as they are right now." Park believes since Japan forced the Koreans to go to Sakhalin in the first place, it is up to Tokyo to see that they get home...
Park's singleminded crusade has struck a chord of sympathy in both Japan and South Korea. About 500,000 South Koreans have formed an organization to campaign for the repatriation of their countrymen; Seoul now beams a radio program to the Sakhalinese Koreans with messages and greetings from relatives and friends at home. In Japan a similar association was formed by suburban Tokyo Housewife Rei Mihara...