Word: fatherland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wounded with all the strength of Russia"). There is little continuity in the libretto written by Prokofiev and his second wife. Prokofiev was dramatizing only a series of focal points in the story that all his audiences know. In a final chorus ("We went to battle for our fatherland"), the Russian people declare themselves the victors and heroes of the opera...
...PRESIDENT: I have never worked with a view toward promoting my personal popularity. I have devoted myself to the national security and prosperity of our country. During my stay in office, I would like to achieve the basic aspiration of all the Korean people: the peaceful unification of our fatherland. To achieve it, a durable peace must first be achieved on the Korean peninsula. Therefore my immediate duty as national leader is to prevent a recurrence of war and consolidate the foundation for peace...
...South Viet Nam's National Assembly. Speaking in halting gasps, wearing dark glasses, he told the legislators that it was for them to decide if he should stay in office or make way for General Minh. "Now our ally has abandoned us and we have to defend our fatherland alone," he warned, "but by doing that Saigon may become a sea of fire and a mound of bones. I wish to avoid this...
...learned the motel business from his grandfather in West Virginia, and Nick was not averse to playing up to the crafty old gentleman's desire to leave his fortune in good hands. Nick was all ready to be the old gentleman's guide on a return to Greece, the fatherland, until Nick's father, seeing a threat to the line of succession, told the boy to scram back to Daytona...
...January and in a stark, 2½%-hour documentary film, the Hillels trace the pro gram's grotesque course. They show that Himmler had become obsessed with the idea of "racial war" and told Lebensborn directors that he wanted "racially acceptable" children in occupied lands brought to the Fatherland to be raised as Germans. "How can we be so cruel as to take a child from its mother?" he asked piously, then answered: "How much more cruel to leave a potential ge nius with our natural enemies...