Word: fatherland
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...said the Prime Minister, "have had a very comfortable journey from my fatherland to my mother's land. I have come, with Anthony Eden, to talk over a few family matters, and to try to make sure that there are no misunderstandings...
...that he in turn will try to form armed militia units among the Communist-controlled unions of laborers and farmers, thereby bringing on a bloody civil war. Tribuna Popular published photographs of strapping farmhands over captions that said they would "take up arms if necessary to defend the fatherland against Yankee monopolists and interventionists." The threatening implication was clear: in a showdown, the pro-Communist regime will depend for survival on guns in the irresponsible hands of its most loyal supporters...
...C.U.T.. Chile's biggest labor federation, staged the strike as a protest against the arrest of its president, Clotario Blest, who had made a rabble-rousing speech denouncing President Carlos Ibanez and his Cabinet as "traitors to the fatherland." Blest was released on bail a fortnight ago, but the strike was called anyway. It was an ugly symptom of the nation's sickness...
Once in place, the bells needed a rigging of wires, levers, and foot pedals for operation. A Russian expert, Saradjeff, was brought from the fatherland to devise the system. With typical Rissian ingenuity, he planned a complex scheme which no one has since been able to figure out. It was reported, at the time, that Saradjeff himself forgot how the mechanism worked, took to fits, and was found drinking ink in the Lowell House Common Room. He was sent back to Russia...
...love you, lady of Puerto Rico, Like the noble blood that has sanctified The Fatherland of Betances and of Diego...