Word: fatherland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...headquarters, hostile crowds closed around them chanting, "With or without the OAS, we will win!" At a rally in the rebel area, he shouted to a crowd of 8,000: "We will never lose!" "Yankees out! Yankees out!" chanted the mob. The rebel newspaper Patria-Fatherland-called the Americans "the direct inheritors of the Nazism of Adolf Hitler...
...Citizens," said Imbert, after taking the oath of office, "our capital is in ruins. Our national life is in pieces. Dominicans of all sectors have come forth in order that we can form a government of national reconstruction. We do not desire anything other than the salvation of our fatherland." Imbert's junta was composed of a lawyer, an engineer, an air force colonel from Wessin y Wessin's government; in a gesture to the rebels who had started the revolt in the name of deposed President Juan Bosch, he included a pro-Bosch editor...
...Prayer: "Our Doc who art in the National Palace for Life, hallowed be Thy name by present and future generations, Thy will be done at Port-au-Prince and in the provinces. Give us this day our new Haiti and never forgive the trespasses of the enemies of the Fatherland, who spit every day on our Country. Let them succumb to temptation and under the weight of their own venom. Deliver them not from any evil. Amen...
Trujillo's favorite titles were "Benefactor of the Fatherland," "Chief Protector of the Working Class," "Genius of Peace." In a grim way, there was something to the brags. He imposed a rare order on his powder-keg country, built efficient hospitals, crisscrossed the country with good roads, built housing projects for his 2,900,000 people, improved the water supply and increased literacy. Business prospered, and so did Trujillo?to the tune of an estimated $800 million fortune. He and his family owned 65% of the country's sugar production, twelve of its 16 sugar mills...
...please everyone. Students in Seoul denounced the treaty as "a sellout of the country." Opposition parties expressed fear that normal relations would "bring Korea again under Japan's economic and political domination." In Tokyo, South Koreans paraded under a banner reading, "Don't sell our fatherland for cheap money." But such peripheral protests are not likely to affect the draft treaty, and both countries seem to have concluded realistically that neighbors living in the shadow of Red China had better be friends than enemies...