Word: compatriots
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...longer save our compatriot. We are going to try to punish his killers.' RADEK SIKORSKI, Polish Foreign Minister, after the Taliban released a video of the beheading of a Polish geologist in Pakistan. It was the first such killing of a Western citizen there since the 2002 murder of Daniel Pearl...
...undergraduates. New acquaintances, he wrote, found nothing unusual about inviting him along to brothels in Barnwell, a village notorious for its sex trade: "He had not known me two days before he asked me to accompany him to Barnwell on an evening after Hall, just as quietly as a compatriot might have asked me to take a drink." The ease with which his peers exploited women reflected their view that "a shop girl, work-woman, domestic servant, and all females in similar positions, were expressly designed for the amusement of gentlemen, and generally serve that purpose...
...hadn’t been able to get past the first 20 pages. I was repulsed by the way he characterized Robert Cohn, describing his “hard, Jewish, stubborn streak” and noting of a certain expression that it is how “his compatriot must have looked when he saw the promised land.” This is the worst of Hemingway: completely unnecessary, uncontrolled racism, plain and simple. Rather than taking the time to describe Cohn as a person, an individual, with individualized attributes, Hemingway just lazily throws catch-all racist epithets that...
...14th, the 19-year-old grabbed a gold by setting a world-record time in the 200m butterfly final. Just behind her was her Chinese compatriot Jiao Liuyang, who claimed the silver. Australian Jessicah Schipper took the bronze. "I didn't expect I could swim so fast," said a delighted Liu, who demolished Schipper's previous world record by 1.22 seconds - an eternity in the split-second world of swimming...
...than you would think. Politics itself is not sacred any more. All those heels are not that high. Poland is not a very large country, but it's also not a small country. I don't exclude the thought that somebody in the world will say, "Look at my compatriot standing next to Tusk. That's amazing...