Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elders. Within hours, Khalid was succeeded by Crown Prince Fahd, 60, his able and ambitious half brother, who has in effect been running the kingdom on a day-to-day basis since Khalid became King in 1975. In a voice heavy with emotion, the new King informed his countrymen of Khalid's death over Saudi radio. "Our love for him compels us to continue his march, pursue his hopes and complete his plans," he said. In accordance with Islamic law and Saudi custom, Khalid's body was wrapped in a brown shroud and buried in an unmarked grave...
Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy quickly launched a campaign to convince his skeptical countrymen of the need for such common sacrifices. Few doubted that the credibility, and possibly the survival, of his government was hanging on the success of those efforts. Coming only eight months after an 8.5% devaluation against the mark, last week's realignment was the turning point in the 13-month-old attempt by the Socialist government to spur economic growth and curb unemployment through government spending-an approach diametrically opposed to that of the Reagan Administration. Said Yvon Gattaz, the peppery president of France...
Another Filipino, who asked to remain anonymous, says he and his countrymen at the school--even those with opposing political views--have a lot in common. "After all, we are all foreigners in a strange country. It's just natural we should seek each other out," he says...
...continued, Mauritania renounced its claim to any part of the former Spanish colony. Hassan held on, but understood that he was in a bind: he could not defeat the Polisario, even though he was spending about $ 1 million a day in trying; and he could not withdraw because his countrymen of every political persuasion, whatever they might think of his other policies, were wildly enthusiastic about the war in the Sahara...
...chapter on Edmund Wilson, "The Critic as Wound-Dresser," is overblown and a bit self-serving. Edel refers to the Greek myth of Philoctetes, a great archer who was banished because a septic injury offended the noses of his countrymen. Wilson himself read this as an allegory of the artist as outcast. As embellished by Edel, Wilson the critic is like Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, who endured the stench and nursed the archer. Wound-dresser is a limited and benign definition of a critic who laid open many a reputation with one stroke...