Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were told that their children would have to attend Canadian schools. Stubbornly refusing to obey, the German-speaking Mennonites, relatives of the plain folk of Pennsylvania and direct, inbred descendants of the Germanic fishermen who migrated from the Frisian Islands 400 years ago, began to search for a new homeland...
...Time for Optimism. Ben-Gurion is less impassioned about Gaza, although he says he would like to use the Gaza Strip to prove that the Israelis can do right by the Arab refugees driven from their homeland (this Israeli explanation rings hollow in Arab ears). Last week he had reduced his Gaza demands to this: "The Egyptians must not return. They must never return. We won't agree unless we are made to-forcibly." He added: "I don't overestimate our strength. I suppose the U.S. or U.N. could send in armies." He stopped and chuckled. Grinning slyly...
...selling the last remaining bit of family property--perhaps symbolically, a back alley--and spending the money on a spree. Mr. Barton's performance in the role is a little incoherent, a fact which may be excused on the grounds that the cute little Irishisms and maunderings about the homeland which he is called upon to utter must have proved thoroughly repulsive to an actor of his stature and experience. I am not sure whether McLiam means it so, but the heart attack which strikes Muldoon down is certainly a well-deserved judgment...
...Jordan, that wide space in the desert which has little reason for nationhood, the noisily Nationalist government has been losing steam. Young (21) King Hussein a fortnight ago wrote Premier Suleiman Nabulsi bluntly: "We now detect the danger of Communist infiltration in our Arab homeland, and the threat posed by those who feign loyalty to Arab nationalism, indulge in hullabaloo, prevarications, falsehood and heroics, thereby seeking to conceal their evil designs against Arab nationalism and the fact that they cooperate with our enemies in misleading the masses and exploiting the people...
...Persia by setting fire to the temple of the Persian goddess Cybele in Sardis, helps incite war between Carthage and Sicily, insults the majesty of Rome, and leads his fellow Etruscans to ruin on the bloody field of Himera. In the end he goes alone to his doomed homeland in Etruria, where the famed twelve "sacred cities" stand in an elegiac hush awaiting the final onslaught of Gauls from the north and Romans from the south that will erase the Etruscan language and religion from history...