Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Something profound has happened since he wrote. War has changed its shape and its dimension. It cannot now be a 'stage' in the development of anything save ruin for your regime and your homeland...
...appropriate to ask Citizen Thomas Mann for a more specific definition of the "slight restrictions of freedom" [TIME, Dec. 1] in the country whose citizenship he is anxious to keep . . . He has the moral obligation to speak up instead of spreading insinuations against his adopted homeland and to violate his promise to act as a good-will messenger when issued his American passport for travel abroad. Of course, the Nobel Prize awarded to Thomas Mann was for literature, not for taste, tact and loyalty...
...Your report should be of great aid in furthering the educational program of the council, to wit-America is the only "homeland" of an American citizen, that citizen's religious affiliations, his personal privilege...
...lied: "I want to see all I can of my beautiful homeland...
Parking on a likely corner, the truck blares forth recorded music on its system--Irish jigs or Italian tarentella, depending on the neighborhood. As soon as a crowd forms, Moore begins to orate for the Republican ticket. First he softens the crowd up with references to their homeland. (You've got to be careful not to say the wrong thing," Moore says. "For instance, you don't praise Jan Masaryk in front of a Slovak group--the Slovaks hate the Czech's guts.") Then relates the near and dear to his subject ("Garibaldi was a Republican, too.") Often Moore flavors...