Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...excited, though he was making only his third start on an indoor track and had never seen the Garden's before. He stood respectfully for The Star-Spangled Banner, then straightened a bit more as the band struggled through the Luxembourg national anthem, Ons Hémecht (Our Homeland). At the starter's gun, medium-built (5 ft. 9 in., 155 Ibs.) Barthel was off with the pack, running smoothly and easily with his short-legged stride...
When the witnesses were finished, so was Serag el Din. "Show your mercy toward the homeland by proving cruel to him," demanded the prosecutor in his summation. At week's end Serag el Din stood up and did not flick an eyelash as the court pronounced its verdict: 15 years in prison...
...still anxious to have them back. This week they learned that their homeland no longer cared what they did. The U.S. Defense Department ordered the 21 men dishonorably discharged-and it was made clear that the outcasts would be in deep trouble if they did come home...
When the Western Allies stumbled upon him right after V-E Day, Konrad Adenauer was just an old man in a high, starched collar, stern and vigorous and proud, already well into the twilight of his life. In his three-score-and-ten, his homeland had soared and sunk through two great historical phases and entered a third. Two of these phases Konrad Adenauer had lived out in a routine of efficient ordinariness and relative obscurity. He was born (Jan. 5, 1876) in the age of Bismarck; he was already 42 when the Kaiser fell. Through the sad days...
...Monumental' works [have been] composed for choirs and grand orchestras-and with nothing in them! One had to put up with it just because the title had something about 'Love for the Soviet Homeland' or 'The Struggle for Peace' and 'Friendship of the Nations.' But in the end.life itself gave a proper appreciation of these works-they were thoroughly forgotten in no time...