Word: countrymen
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...Berlin July 19, 1948 The people came. In the thronged square, Social Democratic leader Ernst Spars climbed on to a platform. He pointed to the overcast skies. "Up there," cried Spars, "the American people are showing their faith in the cause of our Berlin brothers. Yet we - their fellow countrymen - have done nothing. Now we must act! There is not much food for us here in Melsungen, but let us share with those brave Berliners what little we have!" Oxford, England May 17, 1954 Then, according to plan, [Chris] Chataway sprinted into the lead, [Roger] Bannister right at his heels...
...contrast could not be more marked between Putin's increasingly assertive stance vis-a-vis the U.S. and the pliant posture of Boris Yeltsin. Yeltsin was always more popular in the West than he was among his countrymen, especially as they felt the effects of his reforms on their standard of living and watched their country's geopolitical status plummet in as little as five years from that of superpower to that of a harmless family drunk...
...anti-Americanism; in Paris. His 1970 book Without Marx or Jesus argued that the U.S. model of multiparty democracy, not socialism, was the best way to achieve world peace. One of 40 members of the Acad?mie Fran?aise, which defends the standards of the French language, Revel recently disparaged his countrymen, declaring: "We French have had little to say against Saddam Hussein, Muammar Qaddafi ... [or] the imams of the Islamic Republic of Iran," instead saving their vitriol "for Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush...
...Indian niggas, then rajamuffins, then raggastanis, Britasians, f___n Indobrits," as Londonstani's conflicted hero, Jas, describes his peer-group's search for a label. "These days we try an use our own word for homeboy an so we just call ourselves desis." That word basically means countrymen in Hindi, but in Londonstani it seems to embrace any young gangsta wannabe who fancies bling jewelry, designer hooded sweatshirts, Bollywood film divas, high-end mobile phones and senseless violence. A former "coconut" - brown outside, white inside - Jas has given up his studious ways to hang out with a gang of more...
...Americanism; in Paris. His 1970 book, Without Marx or Jesus, argued that the U.S. model of multiparty democracy, not socialism, was the best way to achieve world peace. One of 40 members of the Académie Française, which defends the standards of the language, he recently rebuked his countrymen, saying, "We French have had little to say against Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi [or] the imams of the Islamic Republic of Iran," instead saving vitriol "for Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush...