Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ryumin and Ignatiev, there was another victim: Lidiya F. Timashuk, a grandmother and a physician. Lidiya Timashuk was decorated last January with the Order of Lenin,the Soviet Union's top order, "for exposing the doctor assassins." "She fought," said Pravda, "as one fights with enemies of the homeland-a life and death struggle." Last week Dr. Timashuk was stripped of her decoration because the information she gave had not accorded with "the actual state of affairs...
...black eyes were bright with discovery last week as he began to learn the ropes in the homeland of the G.I.s and missionaries. "America is a very big country and very beautiful," he exclaimed. "Even the barns are beautiful-and bigger than Korean churches. I have not seen slums like our poor little boxes at home. Even in Chicago, the slums are two stories or three stories high." But Ye's eyes saw other things that surprised him in a different way: "The most remarkable tendency-so many nude pictures. Very usual for you, perhaps...
...Dulles, Jackson, Cutler and Hagerty standing by, a presidential statement aimed at the Russian people was drafted. Said Eisenhower: "The thoughts of America go out to all the people of the U.S.S.R.-the men and women, the boys and girls-in the villages, cities, farms and factories of their homeland...
...first Free Belgian to parachute into his German-occupied homeland after King Leopold III surrendered to the Nazis in 1940 slipped back to London with a confidential letter. Addressed to a Belgian minister-in-exile, it came from a friend of the royal family. "Could you please do something about the situation at Laeken [Palace]? The King is surrounded ... A beautiful German blonde masseuse comes in every morning, and the King sees far too much of Mademoiselle Baels...
...towards Jewry began years ago when the Party grated religious freedom. Then Hitler's slaughter offered Stalin a perfect opportunity to show his golden heart and pull a coup on Breat Britain and the United States in the process. By offering the province of Birobijan as a Jewish national homeland, while the UN was still fighting over who would get Palestine, Stalin hoped to alienate the large remnant of Europe's Jews from the Western world. Thousands did go to Birobijan, a vast expanse of tundra whose only abundant natural resource is snow. They have not been heard from since...