Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet citizens interviewed left Russia during and after World War II. Most of them were moved out of their homeland involuntarily by the Germans as prisoners of war or as workers. The mass-interview techniques employed by the Projects are not used, or permitted, inside Russia...
Arabism's Hope. Nasser's position was not without its own strength. In Egypt and the Arab world, the 38-year-old strongman who boasts that he will "extend the Arab homeland from the Atlantic Ocean to the Persian Gulf," became overnight the most vaunted hero since Saladin. Thirty-two governments, said his semi-official news service, acclaimed his deed, ranging from Communist China to Franco's Spain. Saudi Arabia's King Saud sent Nasser a personal message: "I am with Egypt with all I possess." Jordan's young King Hussein cabled that Nasser...
...attitudes and life-experiences of Soviet citizens. Detailed questionnaires and extended interviews probed many aspects of life under the Soviets. The experts questioned about 3,000 former Soviet citizens who had left Russia during and after the second World War. Most of them were moved out of their homeland involuntarily by the Germans as prisoners of war or as workers. Such mass-interview techniques are not used, or permitted, inside the Soviet Union...
...short, ungainly frame looks so attractive to foreign horsemen that the marchese has received offers up to $1,428,000 for him, a world-record price for any race horse. But Ribot has been designated a live and kicking "national monument," may not be sold outside his homeland. The disappointed marchese has decided to retire him to stud...
...Fromm Music Foundation four years ago, Paul Fromm was nourishing an ambition as old as his student days in Germany. The son of a prosperous wine grower, he early became an enthusiastic supporter of contemporary German music, was on the point of establishing a music foundation in his homeland when he was forced to flee the country during Hitler's pogroms of 1938. In the U.S. he prospered quickly, set up his own wine-importing firm and bought into several other businesses. By 1952 he was ready to turn his attention to U.S. music...