Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possessed before the U.S. arrived in force, nor is there any longer serious talk of South Viet Nam's once imminent political collapse. In the past year, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops have achieved not a single victory worth writing home to Hanoi about, while the Communist homeland absorbs an ever-increasing rain of American bombs. U.S. manpower and firepower poured into the conflict since the summer of 1965 have made the Allies largely master of the battlefield...
...inferiority complex of republicans in a republic, an inner insecurity." After his trip, Otto, now 53 and living near Munich, said that he wished to establish a "precedent" for his right to travel in Austria. Wistfully, he added: "It was the journey of a man who loves his homeland although he does not know it." Did he plan to repeat the visit? Certainly, he replied. In fact, he planned one day to make his home in the land his ancestor conquered...
PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! The difficulty of severing the skeins to one's past is the theme in Brian Friel's delicately woven tapestry of a young Irishman saying farewell to his homeland...
Irishman taking farewell of his homeland...
...only homeland that has been turned into an official Bantustan is the Transkei, a region of 16,500 square miles and 1.5 million Xhosa tribesmen in the state of Natal. With an elected Parliament of 45 members and Para mount Chief Kaiser Matanzima as Chief, the Transkei was granted semi-autonomy last year, and Verwoerd talks with apparent sincerity of eventual, full independence...