Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ronald Reagan. Nowhere a hint of Nixon's own private rosebud, although I think the statement by an old friend of the Nixon family to the effect that, as a boy. Nixon worked eighteen hours a day and thus could never come to feel any sympathy for his fellow countrymen who work only eight, comes closest to the truth. A truly hollow man, Nixon is one who is simply driven. His presidency becomes his chance to wreak vegeance on a country that infused him ineradicably with its prevailing brand of spiritual emptiness...
...Spain one of the longest periods of peace in its history and has presided over its most prosperous decade. As for Spain's autocratic political system, the Caudillo last year assured his subjects in a pseudonymous newspaper article that "our peculiarity is no defect," and few of his countrymen seem to disagree. In telling contrast to the cheering crowd in the Plaza de Oriente, slightly more than half the eligible voters turned out for last week's election to the Cortes, or parliament. Only a fifth of the seats in the largely rubber-stamp assembly are filled...
...revisionist" heresy. When French Maoist Regis Bergeron heard that Khrushchev had died, for example, he exulted: "Good! Another revisionist less. Unfortunately, Khrushchevism does not die with him." A large number of Nikita Khrushchev's experiments ended in failure. His attempts to grant greater intellectual freedom to his countrymen were largely nullified by his subsequent actions-partly because he was under pressure from his own hard-liners not to go too far and partly because he preferred order to ideas. Perhaps most disastrous to his standing at home was the failure of many of his domestic programs. He knew something...
...submit that if the U.S. can tolerate a Communist dictatorship 90 miles from its shores, Chairman Mao and his countrymen can coexist with a non-Communist Taiwan, which, although it doesn't meet our standards of democracy, is a veritable bastion of freedom and individual opportunity compared with mainland China...
Four years ago, then-Prime Minister Harold Wilson conjured a stirring vision for his countrymen. "Out of the destruction of two world wars," he said, Europe was about "to create a new unity," with Britain a major participant in that grand venture. Despite those ringing words, suspicion began to grow about the depth of Wilson's commitment to joining the six-member European Economic Community. By March 1970, with an election imminent and the polls showing heavy antiMarket sentiment, Wilson seemed so uncertain about it that Tory Leader Edward Heath, who was to replace him as Prime Minister three...