Word: countrywoman
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What Mr. Cooke was apparently trying to do was to match the standard of his countrywoman, Rebecca West, in her description of the trial of William Joyce, Lord Haw-Haw. The difficulty is that the Joyce and Hiss trials are not comparable. By a detailing of the first you learn something about the defendant, but by a detailing of the Hiss trials you learn nothing about Mr. Hiss...
Palmiro Togliatti was back. Three months after his attempted assassination (TIME, July 26), he still looked pale; his voice no longer seemed to carry the old, metallic ring. When Togliatti appeared at a Communist rally in Rome last week, a plump countrywoman wiped her eyes. "Poor dear," she said. "He must still be ill, he's not his old self...
Birds froze in mid-air and fell like stones to the ground. At Norwich a young countrywoman started to cross the road in her usual robust health and was seen by the onlookers to turn visibly to powder and be blown in a puff of dust over the roofs. . . . Corpses froze and could not be drawn from the sheets,. .. It was commonly supposed that the great increase of rocks in Derbyshire was due to . . . the solidification of unfortunate wayfarers...
Died. Mme. Jean Colette,* 47, longtime aide to her Polish countrywoman, Marie Curie, at the Radium Institute in Paris; from the effects of radioactivity research continued after Mme. Curie's death in 1934 from radium poisoning; in Paris...
...Royal Irish Constabulary. One day in 1916, near his post along the lonely Kerry coast, a U-boat surfaced, put a passenger ashore. Sir Roger Casement, famed Irish patriot, was back from the Kaiser's Germany with a message for Ireland's underground rebels. A countrywoman spied him sneaking along the beach, notified the constabulary. Sergeant O'Reilly hurried to the scene, made the arrest that sent Sir Roger to a traitor's hanging in the Tower of London...