Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CHILE, Salvador Allende worked his entire life for his countrymen--for the workers who had never had a vacation, never been to the seashore even though Chile is but 60 miles wide, and for the peasants who starved without land in the shadow of the great estates. A new world dawned in Chile as scorned and ignored people began to join hands and say, look, we matter--we matter to each other and to our common future. The factories became their factories, managed by committees of workers they elected. Many of the great rural estates were broken up and divided...
...here are the prevarications of Literary Gazette. I am supposed to have said that 'the Soviet people are fiends.' Cite the page, liars! This is how I am quoted in order to incite my uninformed countrymen against me: 'Solzhenitsyn equates the Soviet people with the Nazi murderers.' That was a neat bit of word juggling. Yes, I did equate Nazi murderers with the murderers from the Cheka, the G.P.U. and the N.K.V.D. [secret police under Lenin and Stalin]. But Literary Gazette substitutes 'the Soviet people' for the police, so our own executioners can hide...
...Actor Robert Morley, British Airways' exuberant television salesman of England's illimitable charms ("We'll take good care of you"), wryly advised his countrymen to enjoy the shortened work week while it lasts. "For years now, the planners have been assuring us that before long a man would not be required to work more than two or three days a week," Morley wrote in a letter to the London Times. "Now that this blissful state of affairs has arrived, no one seems to relish the fact. Everyone sits around working out on used envelopes how much less...
Someone else's generosity is a difficult thing to judge. But his countrymen may be forgiven if they regard Richard Nixon-a man who has spoken so much about the importance of voluntary effort and private charities-as exceptionally tightfisted...
...been long since Superpatriot John Wayne, 66, recorded a pep talk for his countrymen called America, Why I Love Her. Among the numbers was The Good Things, a panegyric to the mundane virtues of American life: "A fireman who climbs a tree and sets a little kitten free," and, of course, the "men who love their wives." It turns out that Wayne's memory of the good things is faulty. His third wife Pilar, 45, will not, after all, be the girl with whom he rides into the sunset, because after 19 years of marriage and three children...