Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When myxomatosis was accidentally imported* into England in 1953, the homeland of Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail was horrified. Every rabbit from Penzance to the Orkneys, it seemed, was dying or dead. Stricken animals with grotesquely swollen heads hobbled aimlessly on highways, and carcasses lay stinking in ditches...
Author Ivo Andrić, who was raised in the town of Visegrad he writes about so compassionately, is president of the Communist Federation of Writers of Yugoslavia. Before Tito, he was Yugoslavian minister in Berlin when the Nazis declared war on his homeland. This book, his acknowledged masterpiece, was written during World War II while Andrić lived in retirement in Nazi-occupied Belgrade. It is richly peopled and suffused with an ironic yet loving view of man. To Andrić there is always the hope that "if they destroy here, then somewhere is building. If God had abandoned this...
Belgium's Bachelor King Baudouin last week flew back to his dazzled homeland from the U.S. He had left Brussels three weeks before, a gloomy, aloof young monarch who seemed content to live in the shadow of his embittered, interfering father, ex-King Leopold III. But as he toured the U.S., there was a king-sized thaw. In Washington. Baudouin joked with newsmen; in Dallas, he danced until 2:30 in the morning beside a swimming pool, confided: "I have never had so much fun in my life." Hollywood was a chat with Gina Lollobrigida and lunch with Debbie...
Seemingly by reflex, Nikita Khrushchev gave the gathering diplomats their first reminder of the ugly possibilities beneath the bland protestations of peace. He told a group of West German visitors to Moscow that Russia could put their homeland "out of action" with not more than eight H-bombs; in a nuclear war, he conceded, Russia would suffer "losses, and great ones," but "the Western powers would be literally wiped off the face of the earth...
When the Turkish empire lay in ruins after World War 1, two men prevented their occupied homeland from being reduced to impotence. One was the great Kemal Ataturk, who is dead. The other...