Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...countrymen would argue with that assessment. The mood in Manila, thick with political tension ever since Marcos issued his surprise election call, grew even more claustrophobic last week with the latest campaign soundings. The rumor mills that grind endlessly in the city's crowded coffeehouses increased their outpourings of speculation. Fears flew that Marcos might try to cancel the balloting, a possibility that he has never quite rejected. Opponents of the President were worried that he intended to rig the election contest even more blatantly than other votes have been altered in the past. If that happened, they warned darkly...
...exiled Black South African and visiting scholar at Currier House last night attacked a University-sponsored internship program to aid his embattled countrymen, saying it could not have any positive impact...
...compulsively ("His choice of bed partners was vulgar and in poor taste") and complained about Yael's boyfriends like a jealous lover. In the '70s other, wider conflicts intervened. After Israel's near catastrophe in the October War of 1973, the general was maligned by some of his own countrymen as "the architect of military cemeteries." His 35-year marriage dissolved, he remarried, enjoyed a brief period of rehabilitation and happiness, but then, after great pain, succumbed to cancer in 1981. His coldly worded will left almost everything to his second wife. In death, Yael bitterly remarks, "he shrank...
...each must be bright and articulate to be able to relate his experiences in the United States and Canada to his countrymen back home after the tour...
...whom had spent the night in parks and other open spaces. President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado took note of the "panic" provoked by the second shock, but assured Mexicans that "the damage was much less than the first." Earlier, in appealing for calm, he had told his countrymen that "we are living through a great tragedy that affects all Mexicans...