Word: countryman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case has arrived at the high court at around the same time a related but different dispute may be heading toward a courtroom in Florida. Until recently, Brenda Taylor was an assistant state attorney in Broward County, Fla. But earlier this year she was reprimanded by her boss, John Countryman, because of the clothes she favored for court appearances. Taylor, 25, has a penchant for short skirts, designer blouses, ornate jewelry and spike heels with colored hosiery. She says she has a flair for fashion. Countryman told her she looked like a "bimbo." In September, after Taylor complained...
...coming force in the N.B.A. is a Nigerian, Houston Rocket Akeem Olajuwon (whose countryman Christian Okoye, incidentally, gained 105 yds. last week in his pro-football debut with the Kansas City Chiefs). Newell says, "I asked Akeem recently about his wonderful footwork. He replied, 'I played much soccer.' The foreign athletes' background in soccer may be a tremendous asset. They have an ambidexterity with their feet. I think if I were still coaching basketball, I'd have my team play soccer...
...criticize the decision to award an honorary degree to the German president, saying that he has covered-up his father's war crimes as a Nazi foreign service officer, pose their complaints against the younger von Weizsacker in terms of the laudable standards he has held for his fellow countryman. Von Weizsacker's standard is one that demands personal reconcilation with the past, and a commitment to bear the consequences of Nazi attrocities...
...year. As the fat years ran out in the early '70s, he retreated to the woods. He spent his time clearing saplings on old logging trails; good folk-song material here. He bought some beehives. He tapped his maple trees in the spring and discovered with a born-again countryman's pleasure that his illustrious ancestor, Dr. Benjamin Rush of Philadelphia, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, had written a long letter to Thomas Jefferson, promoting maple sugar as a boon to health and commerce...
TOSCANINI WAS an important part of the fetishization of music, Horowitz concludes, because his style, far from being suited to all types of music, cut all of it in the same, popularly appealing mold--that of the visceral music of Guiseppe Verdi, Toscanini's countryman, friend, and deepest musical love...