Word: countrymen
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...must be that to Chinese authorities, the notion that a man could love his country and his fellow countrymen so much that he would risk his own comfort and safety to return to his homeland so baffles them that they assume instead that there’s some secret threat at hand and there’s something wrong,” McGlinchey said...
...Americans must play global watchdog, they might as well let the occupied nation do its own work. The images portrayed in your report were sad reminders of the mission that went bad in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1993. Haven't Americans seen enough? How long will they allow their countrymen to suffer at the hands of the Iraqis? As long as the U.S. exerts its authority in other countries, it will certainly be unwelcome. It's time to use less force and more diplomacy in achieving peace. Lakhvir Singh Nairobi, Kenya
...While Blair sought in his speech to look beyond the political skirmishing on both sides of the Atlantic and turn his countrymen's attention to the universal values embodied in American freedom and at the center of its global fight against terrorism, one of the most pressing immediate disputes between London and Washington concerned a difference in understanding of how those values are to be applied. Under massive domestic pressure, Britain has asked that two of its citizens held prisoner on Guantanamo and slated to face a military tribunal empowered to sentence them to death be sent home instead...
...discretion Franklin differed from his countrymen, who almost universally found the Paris posting a Calvary and who were vocal on the subject. One swore he would prefer a farm in America to a dukedom in France. Adams wailed that he would rather be a doorman in Congress. Among his torments was Franklin himself, who understood that some American qualities--piety, earnestness, efficiency--did not go far in 18th century France. Franklin remained at all times a pragmatist and an astonishingly flexible thinker. He was realistic about the prospects of conducting business in a land of radically different habits...
...kite, about whom America has had mixed feelings. In France the ugly American wears as many faces as he does baseball caps, but the model American wears the placid, loose-jawed countenance of Ben Franklin, Ur-republican. He stands in stark contrast to his sanctimonious and chauvinistic and mercantile countrymen, a model of what the French like most in their Americans: a skeptical, subtle faux naif with a sense of humor and a taste for culture and a deep appreciation for the supremacy of France...