Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With a flourish, Nixon declared: "Today we stand in Washington on Nov. 5, a winter day. In our country, we call this kind of a day Indian summer." As it happened, it was Nov. 4-autumn, not winter-and Indian summer derives from American Indians, not Indira's countrymen. But, the President said, the weather was "a good omen for our countries"-and indeed it seemed so. Concluding with a passing allusion to the treaty signed recently by the Soviet Union and India, Nixon said that India and the U.S. are bound by a "profound morality that does...
...faced a more mighty challenge: the threat of a war with Pakistan that could engulf the entire subcontinent. Yet as Prime Minister Indira Gandhi made her way across Europe on a six-nation tour that will bring her to Washington this week, she was forced to concede that her countrymen badly need help to rise to this occasion...
...embassy in Saigon, the Tet offensive of 1968 was something more impressive than that. "What the hell is going on?" CBS Correspondent Walter Cronkite fairly shouted when he first saw footage of the raid. "I though we were winning the war." So did many of his countrymen, who had taken at face value General William Westmoreland's expansive claim, a few weeks before Tet, that "with 1968 a new phase is starting. We have reached the important point when the end begins to come in view...
Daniel Ellsberg '52, an MIT research associate who has admitted leaking the Pentagon Papers, told the rally crowd at the Common that President Nixon should be impeached for "his repeated lies and violence to the Constitution of his country and to his countrymen...
Died. Naoya Shiga, 88, the grand old misanthropic master of Japanese letters, known to his countrymen as "the Divine Novelist" and "Emperor Shiga"; of pneumonia; in Tokyo. Shiga was a perfectionist who spent 16 years writing his only full-length novel, a semi-autobiographical work called Anya Koro (Journey Through the Darkness). But he was a prolific short-story writer and essayist. His delicate and unadorned prose made his works classics. Shiga was frustrated by what he considered the inadequacies of his own language: he once urged Japan to adopt "a more exacting foreign tongue...