Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite Ford's genuine desire to meet his countrymen, the extraordinary security measures that shrouded his trip showed how deeply his freedom had been at least temporarily restricted. One symptom of the new nervousness around the White House: the entourage of newspaper reporters jumped from the regular eight or ten to 26, including correspondents from four British and three Australian newspapers...
...with death, and made to feel that she had been abandoned by her family. These are all classic techniques of brainwashing, according to Yale Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton, who closely analyzed the mind-bending methods used on American prisoners of war in Korea and by Chinese Communists on their countrymen...
...business of judging people--and Heinrich Boll is--then you had better be precise. If you feel guilty for the war crimes of your Nazi countrymen, you won't work it out by heaping blame on the girl who wove wreathes for dead Party bosses or on the man who has lost an eye and a leg for Germany and filched gold teeth from American corpses for himself. You had better plot dates and crimes, X's and Y's, and allegations against counter-allegations, until you determine who, in the sum of suffering, has done what to whom...
...Rosera, head of the national war college. Their muzzy plot−"it must have been brewed before cocktails and executed after," as one foreign diplomat put it−was to surround the national palace in Quito and force the resignation of roly-poly President Rodriguez (known informally to his countrymen as el Bombita, or the little balloon), who has been Ecuador's benign, reformist dictator since leading a successful military coup in 1972. Setting up headquarters in a funeral parlor, the two rebel generals marshaled their forces, which consisted of 150 soldiers and six ancient U.S. Army tanks...
...nation whose heroes have often been martyred failures, Eamon de Valera survived and succeeded. Through a defeated insurrection and a lost civil war, "Dev" struggled to free and unite the nation that had adopted him. When he died last week in Dublin, 92 and nearly blind, few of his countrymen could recall a time when De Valera's gaunt, beak-nosed visage was not a part of Irish political life...