Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that. I can hardly express to you, small flower of our garden, with what pleasure this exhibition filled me. For years I had felt so provincial, so deprived of information. Now I realize that the most advanced forms of Western art are simply what the less fortunate of our countrymen do, in their millions, every day - spontaneously and without choice. Do you think I should approach Mr. Gupta, the fifth under secretary in charge of cultural exchange, to have Burden go to Calcutta? He would be so consoling. Your affectionate brother, Mohendra...
Produce or Perish. To inspire his countrymen, Nyerere himself has spent the past month upcountry doing daily labor on ujamaa projects. There he recently received Britain's Foreign Secretary, James Callaghan, who promised a welcome $6 million in emergency aid. To conserve what meager foreign exchange is left, Nyerere has banned liquor and tobacco imports, restricted the importation of automobiles and announced plans for rationing gas. "Our motto must be: 'Produce or perish,' " he says grimly. Despite opposition from the World Bank and other foreign sources of financial aid, Nyerere has not cut back on one expensive...
...timetable that takes the U.S. well into the 1980s, he is seeking to undrape ready resignation in a notoriously impatient people. And he is the first President to report that America's beacon light to the world has dimmed. Above all, Ford could not help conveying what his countrymen also sense-that the way out of the maze is technological as well as political. That is a burden on presidential leadership no other Chief Executive has had to bear...
...lived in the same neighborhoods and walked together. As for their color, I had never seen a people of such varying shades of skin color and hair texture. The darker Cubans did not seem to suffer from racial discriminatory acts as they intermigled with their mulatto and lighter-skinned countrymen. We waved at them through the bus windows as some waved back. When we had been in Mexico City, motorists honked their horns impatiently, swore, cursed at pedestrians, and even called us names...
...bastion of white-settler power that broke free of British rule in 1965, announced that he had agreed to attend a constitutional conference that could lead to a settlement with Britain-and, eventually, to black-majority rule in Britain's breakaway colony. Smith also told his startled countrymen in a televised speech that the African independence movements that have waged a sporadic terrorist campaign against Rhodesia for the past nine years have agreed to a ceasefire. In return, Smith declared, he had ordered the release of all political prisoners, estimated at more than 300 black leaders, held...