Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more in front of the cameras. And anyway, most Americans are very good about assuaging their guilt without parting with cash. No, what does it for Jerry's kids is this--his annual show is an affirmation of most every value near and dear to a great mass of countrymen known, inadequately, as Middle America, people who feel a sense of community, or increasingly, people who once did and wish they could again; they are the ones who join Jerry in his work. For he takes every virtue they understand and uses it, every routine they live and glorifies...
...countrymen refer to him, both admiringly and pejoratively, as "the Bulldozer." He walks like a man about to topple forward under his weight (235 lbs.), each large step shaking the floor as he advances. Both the sobriquet and the gait are appropriate, for Israel's new Defense Minister, Ariel ("Arik") Sharon, 53, whose responsibilities include administration of the Arab territories occupied since 1967, is already exerting more political weight than all his colleagues combined in Prime Minister Menachem Begin's four-week-old Cabinet...
...point, for the two countrymen have done a remarkable job of avoiding head-to-head confrontations while assaulting the record books by themselves. The origin of their mutual dislike is obscure, but its effect on the sport is not. New records for the mile were a rarity in the years after Roger Bannister broke the 4 min. barrier in 1954. American Jim Ryun's 1967 record of 3 min. 51.1 sec., for example, endured for eight years. This year Coe and Ovett have batted the record back and forth like a Ping-Pong ball. In a mere ten days...
...clothing. Although Gaddafi has alienated much of Libya's middle class and some military officers, his future does not appear threatened. "The Libyans are lethargic politically," says a Washington analyst. "They react to political turmoil by retreating to their tribes and clans." Even if Gaddafi's own countrymen put up with him, others, as last week's events demonstrated, may no longer be so tolerant...
...buffaloes range with the elk and the fleet-bounding antelope; where wolves are white and bears grizzly; where the rivers are yellow ... the dogs are all wolves, women are slaves, men all lords." All this was imbued with a sympathy for the Indians shared by few of his countrymen, full as they were of their vision of manifest destiny. As an account of Indian life, his notebooks deserve comparison to Francis Parkman's more conscientious but less lively Oregon Trail...