Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last I forget, and in order that the people of my homeland do not get the impression that Harvard has changed my social habit of complete abstention (re the "Peggy" Affair) I still neither drink nor smoke and in fact find coffee too strong a beverage...
Over half the colony's people are of African descent and have preserved their feelings of cultural loyalty to the homeland from which their ancestors came as slaves. As the first African of noble birth to visit British Guiana in more than 200 years, Eze seemed to personify the new vitality and youth of Africa...
When Spain's Civil War was waning in 1938, famed Spanish Cellist Pablo Casals moved just across the Pyrenees into France, vowed that he would not return to his homeland so long as it remained in the grip of Generalissimo Francisco Franco. But last week aged (78) Musician Casals sadly broke his self-exile, went back to his birthplace, the little Spanish village of Vendrell. After he had buried his longtime friend and housekeeper, Francisca Capdevila, in Vendrell's tiny cemetery, lonely Pablo Casals once again turned his back on his homeland, again crossed the mountains...
...Chinese student, prohibited from returning to his homeland, said last night that he would be willing to participate in a trade for 11 American airmen held by the Chinese communists...
...head of E.N.I., Oilman Mattei is an implacable foe of any foreign-capital oil investment in his homeland. His enemies say that Mattei, more than anyone else, is responsible for scaring away the very type of enlightened foreign capital that Italy must have to complete its economic recovery. Italy, which has always had to import most of its coal and oil at high cost, has promising oil and gas formations, notably in the Po Valley. The big question is: Who will be allowed to develop the oil and who can do it best...