Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battle. He served first at M.I.T.'s Radiation Laboratory, then went to Los Alamos to head the theoretical physics division of the atom bomb project. Had Hitler's empire lasted a little longer, the bomb that Bethe helped build at Los Alamos might well have blown his homeland apart...
...farm tractors will ransom 1,200 Cubans from their homeland, maybe a nuclear submarine or two will redeem the Americans held in Red Chinese jails, and 100 B-58s will persuade the East Germans to release 10,000 of their malcontents...
Among the most painful Panmunjom problems in working out an armistice to the Korean war was the disposition of war prisoners. The solution, finally reached in the summer of 1953, was to leave the choice of returning to his homeland up to each P.W. Among the Chinese and North Koreans held in the U.N. prison camps, 22,000 decided not to go home. Among American P.W.s, only 21 opted to live in Red China. Among them were Otho G. Bell, William A. Cowart and Lewie W. Griggs-and they had compelling reasons to stay with Communism. As a prisoner, Bell...
...Angola, has sharply limited the export of funds out of Angola. At week's end, there were some signs of sanity in Portugal itself. In a public memorandum to Salazar, 61 leading Portuguese demanded drastic changes in the constitution to bring about a more democratic rule in the homeland-as the first step toward solving Portugal's smoldering colonial problems abroad...
Rather than a malted, Shirley is really a marm-a frustrated, febrile virgin teaching a grist of young Maoris in New Zealand, the homeland of Author Sylvia Ashton-Warner, on whose literary masterpiece, Spinster, the film is based-or, better, grounded. For all that was artless power, poetry and humor in the book is now arty, prosy and plodding...