Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tests of any other power-including not only underground tests, but even any illegal tests which might escape detection-could not be sufficient to offset the ability of our strategic forces to deter or survive a nuclear attack and to penetrate and destroy the aggressor's homeland. On the other hand, unrestricted testing -by which other powers could develop all kinds of weapons through atmospheric tests more cheaply an. quickly than they could underground-might well lead to a weakening of our security...
Flying Snoopers. The $7,000,000 haul was the greatest train robbery in history, and far surpassed the 1950 Brink's truck robbery in Boston, which netted $2,775,000. In Australia, the Sydney Daily Telegraph editorialized: "It proves that the homeland of Dick Turpin and Charlie Peace is not decadent. Britons may not admit they are proud, but in private many are thinking, 'For they are jolly good felons...
...dream of leading all Africa-although there is considerable doubt as to how his near-bankrupt country could afford such a role. Still playing the revolutionary, Ben Bella has set up a training camp for 1,000 Angolan guerrillas who hope to drive the Portuguese colonialists from their homeland, and at a foreign ministers' conference in Dakar last week, he rousingly urged the delegates to descend on the U.N. in mass for a last-ditch fight against Portugal and South Africa...
...reports said they came by sea. By other accounts, they forded the Massacre River from the Dominican Republic. One way or the other, in the hot, flat northeast corner of Haiti one morning last week, a band of Haitian exiles led by former army officers waded back into their homeland. Still dripping wet, silver-haired General Léon Cantave, 53, quickly organized his meager forces. Then they all marched off to overthrow, or at least harass, François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, Haiti's brutal dictator...
...Third Largest. So has the Orthodox faith that gave birth to Athos' monasticism, and today, after centuries of persecution and trouble, the third largest branch of Christianity*is showing surprising signs of life and strength in its traditional homeland of the eastern Mediterranean...