Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...produce Christlike figures such as Lech Walesa [Jan. 4] and his brave countrymen, then 1981 was not a bad year for humanity...
...literal sense. Most of the acts of brutality that have been committed in the five weeks since Jaruzelski imposed martial law on Poland have not been the work of the young, generally amiable army recruits, but that of independent security squads specially trained to use force on their countrymen...
...house and has challenged the Writers' Union to take him to court. Until it is legal to read Doctor Zhivago aloud in the Soviet Union, he says, he will fight in every way he can to keep alive the memory of the author who wrote of his countrymen, "You are eternity's hostage, a captive of time...
...their consciences" and "not allow themselves to be used in the waging of war against the nation." Then, addressing himself to the families of the detainees, including Walesa's pregnant wife and six children, Bujak expressed a New Year's wish on behalf of his silent countrymen "that out of your suffering will come a Poland without prisons and internment camps, a Poland without police roundups and without constant fear...
...biped now extinct. This rare bird, born in 1819, was a gentleman of means and an amateur of genius, whose leisurely travels to Italy and Switzerland resulted in a vast outpouring of noblesse oblige: Sesame and Lilies and Seven Lamps of Architecture and some 30 other volumes instructing his countrymen on how to think about art, man and socialism. His writing now seems overabundant; but in an age when color photography and its reproduction in books were lacking, there was a reason for his word-painting, for the microscopically detailed Stones of Venice and for the page after airy page...