Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sacrifices we have made...are not offered vicariously for others, but in our own direct defense...The issue now joined is whether...the next flight of fear-driven people...shall be checked and defeated overseas or permitted step by step to close in on our own homeland...Never have members of any military command had...a finer opportunity [to prove] an honor to the profession of arms and a credit to those who bred...
Eventually a few more details seeped out. Joseph Kamarauskas had been a successful radiologist in his homeland, had been captured and forced to work for the Germans during the war. When the Russians swarmed back, he feared that he would be shot, fled with his wife a few minutes ahead of the Red army. The fugitives eventually made their way to Western Germany and found shelter in a U.S. camp for D.P.s...
...much amused by the continued furor caused by this newspaper in regard to the dearth of social, bisexual entertainment facilities available to the Harvard undergraduate. Much energy, crimition, and literary license has been indulged in to describe the lush grass somewhere and to compare it to the pallid green homeland of the Cantabridgian...
...heard Politburocrat Nikolai Bulganin compare the war in Korea with the civil war in Russia when the Allies unsuccessfully intervened against the Bolsheviks. Accusing the U.S. of instigating World War III with the aim of destroying the Soviet Union, Bulganin keynoted: "The Soviet people are able to defend . . . their homeland . . . with guns in hand...
...face parliamentary elections next year), there still remains the problem of convincing the Germans themselves of the desirability of rearming. Germans might be happy to rearm to fight in China or India, but they know that any future war will be fought right in the middle of their own homeland...