As they say in the old country, there's a sha gua born every minute.
Apparently, her brother-in-law, whose name is Claude, was called Kurt back in the old country.
Her mother, a secret writer herself, died slowly from syphilis caught from rape in the old country.
She was from the old country, and made the best puff pastries around.
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Far Easterners intermingled with those who wore the craggy faces and thin, stylish, black-rimmed eyeglasses of the old country.
The really clever trick will be to figure out a way to get the Old Country to pick up the tab every time.
Hey when your immigrant grandmother came from the Old Country and took the citizenship oath, she took on a lot of karma.
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For generations of immigrants to the United States, one way to make their new home more palatable was to bring with them tastes of the old country.
She suggests that men are like immigrants too, except the kind that pine for the old country and who hold onto old patterns and old ways of doing things.
Photography aided mass migration, as ordinary folks could leave something of themselves back in the old country, or send home a picture of themselves in their new and better lives.
Smirnoff discovered their glorious past and re-energized their marketing team. (Smirnoff invented purified vodka in the old country and went on to introduce vodka to the U.S.A.: rumor has it they invented the martini.) Maxwell House coffee did the same to halt a decade-long sales decline.
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Innocence, freedom, individualism, mobility the belief that you can leave a constricting or violent history behind and remake yourself in a new form of your choosing all are part of the American dream of moving west, first from the old country to America, then from the crowded cities of the East Coast to the open central plains and on to the Pacific.
Mr. TOM CHAPLIN (Vocalist, Delmore Brothers): (Singing) We were just a plain old hillbilly band was the plain old country style, we'd never played the kind of songs that it drives anybody wild...
The connections are not to the old Mother Country of the empire.
The outrage at the telecoms bidding scandal, after so many years of endemic corruption, and chagrin at the near fiasco of the Commonwealth Games suggested to me that the old resignation at the country's fits and starts is giving over to a quick agitation.
The Tory party in the country comprises old women, of both sexes.
The 33-year-old said the country had come a long way since she was growing up under a military regime in the northern state of Kebbi.
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Confidence in political institutions rose in the decades following the smashing of the country's old politics in the second world war.
You'll feel like the belle of the ball when you and the southern gentleman you're sweet on spend two nights in the old-fashioned country comfort of a king room.
The 27-year-old was in the country illegally having over-stayed his visa.
The former conservative president has been placed under formal investigation, accused of accepting thousands of euros from the 90-year-old widow, the country's wealthiest woman, whom experts consider to have been in a state of dementia since at least 2006.
The 24-year-old is one of the country's top 10 gamers, earning him a six-figure annual income and a 200, 000-member fan club.
Situated on the outskirts of the sleepy town of Bedford, in upstate New York, the Bedford Post is a renovated old country home that dates back to the 18th century.
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Energy Secretary Chris Huhne has vowed to change the way the country produces energy, replacing old coal plants with gas-fired power stations and renewable sources as well as building a new generation of nuclear plants.
This survey will argue that, contrary to appearances, he has an extraordinary opportunity to do both but only by being far bolder than his predecessor in tackling the many vestiges of the old order that are still holding the country back.
Analysts says the government of President Juan Manuel Santos is currently trying to heal old wounds from the country's bitter conflict.
Then, in the latest of many moves that never would have happened under the country's old military rulers, the government backed off.
Some researchers think Homo erectus evolved in East Africa, where many of the oldest fossils have been found, but the discovery in the 1990s of equally old Homo erectus fossils in the country of Georgia has led others to suggest an Asian origin.
"We want Britain to be the best country in the world to grow old in - but we have a lot of work to do, " he said.
Last year's winner Slumdog Millionaire went on to win the Oscar for best picture and the previous year, the Coen brother's No Country For Old Men did the same.
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