Word: countrymen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...large part because of huge subsidies from West Germany: some $1 billion a year in bank credits and other transfers. East Germany also profits from back-door access to the rich European Community market through West German middlemen. The special treatment reflects West Germans' strong emotional bond with their countrymen across the Berlin Wall -- and deep-seated hopes that the two Germanys may one day be reunited...
...such assurances will have to wait. First Bush must convince himself of the need for strong medicine and then convince his countrymen that they need to swallow...
...Dear countrymen, appreciated comrades of the armed forces, we have left our barracks in defense of the dignity and the honor of the armed forces, for the full and total unification of the ruling Colorado Party, for the initiation of democratization in Paraguay, for the respect of human rights and for the defense of our Roman Catholic religion...
...hardly surprising that Gorbachev's determination to beef up the civilian economy by paring military spending, including troop reductions and a cut in arms production by 19.5%, has rankled the security-preoccupied military. Two weeks ago a bimonthly military newspaper published a broadside blasting "pacifist calls to our countrymen asking irresponsibly for the Soviet Union unilaterally to 'turn swords into plowshares.' " The Kremlin quickly produced Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, the former Chief of Staff, to pronounce his support for the cuts...
...America had lost all patience with stagflation at home, impudent adversaries abroad and ambiguity from its leadership. The moment was perfect for a leader who dealt in stark simplicities. When he declared that "government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem," he appealed to his countrymen's primordial suspicion of authority. When he talked of God's plan for American freedom, he revived the nation's self-image as uniquely blessed. When he inveighed against tax rates, he played on Everyman's resentment against the burdens of the commonweal. Last week Reagan followed what he called...