Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...France in 1958, Charles de Gaulle faced problems with French Africa that were similar to what Spinola faces now. But De Gaulle at least had a democratic tradition and a certain amount of stability at home. Spinola has neither. What he does have is respect and affection from his countrymen-the depths of which he will soon measure...
...political excrescence that somehow grew, cancerously, upon an unwilling German civilization. Hitler, insists Fest, was simply in the right place at the right time. His frustrations mirrored those of the defeated nation. His anti-Semitism hardened and focused a disease that was then almost pandemic among his bitter, nationalistic countrymen. His vision of a "new" order, disciplined and majestically functional, had in fact just the nostalgic touch that Germans would respond to amid the social and moral chaos of the Weimar Republic...
...kept alive the ideals of a movement-a strong executive authority, a sense of social order, a heightened feeling of national pride and independence-that might have died with its founder. Still, Pompidou was more of a caretaker than a creator, and he notably failed to impart to his countrymen-particularly the young-any stirring vision of France as a future society...
Many conservative officeholders agree with North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms that "conservatives will make a serious error if they advocate that a President, if he is truly innocent, resign to appease a hostile press or even a majority of his countrymen." Senator Tower declares that for Nixon to resign when there are only "allegations of circumstantial evidence" against him would do "irreparable damage to the presidency." California's Reagan describes Buckley's call as "a little curve in the road," a departure from proper conservative ideology...
Returning home to the plaudits of his countrymen, Onoda accepted his new-found celebrity with philosophical calm. What had been his toughest experience? "To have lost my comrades-in-arms." And the most pleasant experience? "Nothing-nothing pleasant happened to me through all these 29 years." Still, he was not quite willing to admit that it had all been in vain. "My country today is rich and great," he said. "When my purpose in the war has been attained, in the fact that Japan today is rich and great, to have won or lost the war is entirely beside...