Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Poland's week of darkness began, Jaruzelski set out to reassure his frightened countrymen. He spoke of law and order as his first objective, and he promised that the process of renewal that had marked the past 16 months would not be reversed. He insisted that Solidarity had merely been suspended, not abolished, and he declared that there would be "no return to the pre-August 1980 system of rule." To underscore that assertion, he ordered the detention of 32 members of the incompetent and scandal-ridden former regime, including deposed Communist Party Chief Edward Gierek. State television was filled...
...Prime Minister sought to scare his countrymen into mending their free-spending ways, his message was ill timed. It came just before the manifestation of a peculiarly Italian custom, tredicesima. That is a 13th-month salary, paid by law and tradition to workers at all levels every Christmastime. Some 21 million Italians received a total of $9.2 billion tredicesimas last week, and few would be so un-Italian as to save a lira of it. Instead, the windfall will go for pasta, parmigiano and panettone, and for spumante and sambuca to grace their holiday tables. Any lire left over will...
Like Solidarity, the men and women who fight in the Democratic Revolutionary Front of El Salvador represent most of their countrymen. Like the Poles, they face repression of the severest sort. In fact, one can argue that the situation in El Salvador, where 12,000 dissidents were murdered last year, is in some ways worse than the status quo in Poland, where so far the authorities have gone no farther than jailing union members...
...international language-inflected, to be sure, by characteristic clipped accents and at times marked by a stiff-upper-lip emotional restraint-as surely as do the German Beethoven, the Italian Verdi, the Frenchman Debussy or the Russian Tchaikovsky: men who transcended the boundaries of their birth and made fellow countrymen out of the world's citizens...
...their nets out and fished for disciples, drawing in with ease the school of neo-conservatives, ripe for policies that put to test their surmises that an unequal distribution of society's rewards best served its interests. Congressman Jack Kemp took off his football helmet and preached of his countrymen's spirit for hard work, one which the across-the-board tax cuts he proposed would no doubt sanctify. Contributing his Harvard pedigree to the cause of supply-side's credibility was Martin Feldstein. He designed models to prove that poor people save less than rich, while a college classmate...