Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rule, yet he did not seem to hanker for power-despite the Pakistani saying that "a general galloping upon a stallion is slow to dismount." Eventually, he decided to press ahead not only with an election but a new constitution, even though, as he later said, "some of my countrymen don't like the idea. They say, 'What the hell's going on? This will lead to chaos...
...word and deed, Ted Heath now has forced upon his countrymen a truly historic decision. They can join the six-nation European Economic Community, renouncing a legacy of insularity that began in 1558 when England lost Calais to the French. Or, in the words of the White Paper, they can "stand aside from this great enterprise and seek to maintain our interests from the narrow -and narrowing-base we have known in recent years...
...pullovers wadded into a knapsack and a few hundred dollars stuffed into their jeans. Many of the girls are unsupported by anything but their male companions. While some of these not-so-innocents abroad may have well-planned itineraries, most are rather aimlessly following crowds of their countrymen in a quest for good vibrations. They are joining millions of footloose European youths, who are wandering far and wide from Hammerfest to Gibraltar-and points even farther out. Whatever their mother tongue, the youngsters manage to communicate. They speak a sort ot Jeunesperanto, and they share much the same style...
...Government agency. It would confront the national drug problem generally, and would have specific authority to take over all cases of addiction in the armed forces and among veterans who became hooked while in uniform. That is at least a palliative gesture. Still, the President has often cautioned his countrymen against the hazards of a premature American withdrawal from Viet Nam; the dimensions of drug addiction among American troops offer one more heart-rending reason why the U.S. should get out as rapidly as possible...
...television era. He was, he said, fighting for a Cuba where "everyone could assemble, associate, speak and write with complete freedom." Now in his 13th year of power, "the Horse" (as Cubans call Castro) has already found it necessary, by his own admission, to shoot 3,500 of his countrymen and imprison 20,000 more...