Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...neutralist Premier of Laos was characteristically expressionless as he spoke, but his words were grave. "Important changes have taken place that some had not expected so suddenly, but they are here," Prince Souvanna Phouma told his countrymen during ceremonies on Constitution Day. "[The new situation] is a great chance to preserve our nation from further bloodshed that would surely take place if one continued to ignore the march of historic events. The war has reached...
...life as a cab driver. "For us," he said, "the only hope is that we shall return. When Hitler occupied Europe, people like President de Gaulle hoped that he could come back-and he was back." Ky seemed to be offering himself as a rallying point for his countrymen, but said that he had no definite plans for forming a government in exile...
While many Vietnamese were trying to find some way to leave their nation, President Thieu was insisting that he would stay-much to the dismay of a growing number of his countrymen. Last week the United Buddhist Church called on Thieu to resign. The An Quang Pagoda faction, representing the most outspoken element of the country's Buddhists, has long opposed the President. So have a number of leading Roman Catholics, members of the National Assembly, former Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and such advocates of the "third force" as General Duong Van ("Big") Minh...
...subjection. Moreover, the extremely hierarchical nature of the social system effectively closes some roads to them. And they need walk no farther than eight blocks from the university, where Leon's poor districts begin, to be reminded of the misery and the agony in which a majority of their countrymen live...
...ACTION TAKES place in Bulgaria in the mid-1880s where the countrymen are defending themselves against the Servians. A Swiss mercenary who is employed by the Servians, Bluntschli, becomes for Raina her "chocolate cream soldier" by virtue of the moonlight encounter in which he reveals his fondness for food over bullets. Her fiance Sergius, Raina figures, is much braver than the smooth-talking Swiss, but only in the last five minutes of the play does the better...