Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ethiopia. I know that there have been problems in the Caribbean, problems in Central America. Why? It is actually culpable if a leader does not make an assessment of that. That's not hawkish-I hate those jargon things. That's doing your duty by your countrymen...
...world," which should be denounced also. He promised that the burdens of righting the economy would be shared equally by all, and said that he would not ignore the needs of the nation's poor and disadvantaged: "How can we love our country, and not love our countrymen? And loving them, reach out a hand when they fall, heal them when they're sick, and provide opportunity to make them self-sufficient so they will be equal in fact and not just in theory?" Reagan did not attempt to reconcile his attack on government, which is the main...
...British, on the other hand, seemed to think that Carter played the matter just about right. Britain's Foreign Secretary, Lord Carrington, observed recently that "when you have got 52 of your fellow countrymen locked up over a period of time and there doesn't seem any way of getting them out, and when you can get them out at the expense of releasing assets which belong to Iran anyway, I think that's a right move. I would not agree that the Americans have given in to blackmail." The West German response has been similar. What...
...almost every case, it has taken a single leader with overpowering moral force to make his countrymen squarely face our deepest problems. America began the long process of solving the inhuman contradictions of race under the leadership of Abraham Lincoln. A hundred years later, it continued that process led by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. For generations, white Americans had countenanced prejudice and discrimination and Black Americans, intimidated by violence and tradition, failed to take effective action. But when M.L. King agreed to head the Mont-gomery bus boycott people began to muster courage and hope. And only when...
...four months. As if the Mass were not unusual enough, Pope John Paul II-who after his election two years ago was denied his wish to send an uncensored Christmas message to his home archdiocese-was accorded twelve minutes on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day to address his countrymen in a taped television spot. Said the Pontiff: "I pray with you for our common fatherland. I recommend to Christ and to his Mother all that has happened in Poland in the past months and, above all, this unity of peace and mutual respect and understanding...