Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Folks over in Europe have spent an awful lot of time, more than 200 years if you're counting, getting up on their high Lipizzaners and calling us a nation of gears and wheels. But we know better. What do you say? Are you ready to join your fellow countrymen (4 million Americans can't be wrong) and take home some bytes of free time, time to sit back after all the word processing and inventorying and dream the dear old dream? Stand with me here. The sun rises in the West. Play it, Mr. Dvorak. There...
...total membership of 30 million. Some are highly orthodox in doctrine, while others incorporate tribal rites in their services and even accept polygamists in church offices. These growing black churches are sending out missionaries of their own. Among them is Ken Okeke, a Nigerian Anglican who works with his countrymen studying in England. Okeke is dismayed by what he finds in the nation that first evangelized his homeland: "This country has become more and more apostate...
With unusual candor, the new President told his countrymen that "Mexico is undergoing a grave crisis." He noted that unemployment was high (between 10% and 15%) and that inflation would reach almost 100% this year. De la Madrid expressed concern about the "mistrust and pessimism" engulfing the country. "We are not a defeated or bankrupt nation," he said. "I will not allow our homeland to crumble away through our fingers...
...James E. Austin, professor of Business Administration and a Mexican specialized says that while de la Madrid must still improve his image among some skeptical countrymen, his technical abilities could prove critical in coming months in improving the nation's economy
Although former President Jimmy Carter makes no claims for himself in his account of the Camp David episode [Oct. 11], it is clear that the accord was the work of a gifted and completely dedicated man. He was treated shabbily by his countrymen, especially by those of his own party. History will deal more kindly and fairly with Jimmy Carter than his contemporaries have...