Word: fatherland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sofia radio casually announced a piece of news: flashing-eyed, mop-maned Georgi Dimitroff, storied revolutionary, had come home at last. After 22 years of exile, the burly, brimstony Bulgarian had taken his rightful place as the No. 1 Communist in the Fatherland Front, his country's dominating political coalition...
...Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, who opened up Japan to western trade and influence. Last fortnight members of the Imperial Rule Assistance Youth Corps, "amidst yo-heave-ho shouts," tore it down. Replacing the Perry Monument is a wooden monolith with inscriptions "to stimulate the spirit to defend the fatherland...
...love of the Fatherland that had prompted Nazis Hobel and Classen to vanish into the warm evening last July MPs testified that when they caught them next morning they were bedded down with the two canning-factory girls in a heap of woodland straw. Owosso Sheriff Ray Gallety later reported that there was nothing much unusual about that-about 15 town girls were "always sneaking out to the camp and nearby fields to meet the Germans...
...Your great hour has struck. Strong attacking armies are advancing today against the Anglo-Americans. I do not need to say more to you. You all feel it. Everything is at stake. You bear the holy duty to ... achieve the superhuman for our Fatherland and our Führer." After a short spell of bad weather which grounded Allied reconnaissance and attack planes, Rundstedt struck. Crack German armored and infantry divisions drove in behind massive artillery barrages. German paratroops landed behind the U.S. lines, tried to snarl communications. Buzz-bombs, rockets and a new, undescribed V-weapon came over...
...German soldier who carries this safe conduct is using it as a sign of his genuine wish to go into captivity for the next ten years, to betray his fatherland, to return home a broken old man and very probably never to see his parents, wife and children again...