Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What a time, indeed. The current ballad by Rhodesian Singer Clem Tholet reflected the country's mood as Tholet's father-in-law, who happens to be Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith, led his white countrymen one step closer to black majority rule. Last week, at Smith's urging, white Rhodesians went to the polls to approve by a wide margin a new constitution under which rule is to pass from the country's 240,000 whites to its 6.4 million blacks. The transition will take place after the whites, along with 2.8 million black voters...
Even as his countrymen prepared to usher in the Year of the Goat, China's Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing was getting ready to leave for his historic visit to the U.S. Just four days before his departure, he took time out for a wide-ranging interview with Time Inc. Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan, who was accompanied by TIME'S Hong Kong bureau chief, Marsh Clark. The interview, initially scheduled for half an hour, stretched to 80 minutes in the Sinkiang Room of the Great Hall of the People on Peking's T'ien An Men Square...
...Friends, Romans, countrymen...
...work fascinated his countrymen from around 1905 to his death in 1962. They ranked him with Thomas Mann. In 1946 Hesse won the Nobel Prize, principally for The Glass Bead Game. Despite what one critic called "his self-indulgent solipsism raised to a more or less fine art," his meditations obviously found a strong resonance with the preoccupations and diseases of his century...
Because his countrymen have supported him through current demonstrations, they have proclaimed that he is their leader, Khomeini added...