Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hospital community was, and still is, racially integrated-not to satisfy any liberal belief, he says, but simply because it is natural: in so small a social organism, survival depends upon each man's becoming a good neighbor to the man next to him. For his adopted homeland, Barker offers neither panacea nor prophecy, only a prayerful Christian hope that the missions' work will not be rejected by black Africa...
...head, Castro made a pass at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo, saying that if the U.S. continues trying to "ruin our economy we will demand withdrawal of their forces." But he added that since the "dou ble dealing" State Department was looking for "a pretext to bloody our homeland" his government "will never attack the base." In the wake of Cuba's newest seizures of U.S. property, including the 13-store, $5,000,000 Minimax supermarket chain and three rubber plants worth $25 million under way, Castro announced that the remaining U.S. holdings (valued at $275 million) would...
Words drop on Novelist Moore's pages with the errant grace and purity of snowflakes, and occasionally an epigrammatic hailstone comes rattling down on the author's adopted homeland, e.g., "Money is the Canadian way to immortality," "Canada is a bore." But in the end, Ginger Coffey refutes both charges...
...continent where complex constitutional problems breed and sting like mosquitoes, no place has a more complex problem than Nyasaland. A British protectorate, Nyasaland is a stringbean sliver of hills whose 2,720,000 African inhabitants are desperately determined to dissolve their homeland's 1953 forced merger with the two Rhodesias into the white-dominated Central African Federation. Fortnight ago, when delegates from Nyasaland and Britain sat down in London's ornate Lancaster House to debate a new deal for the little land, experts predicted failure. Peppery little Dr. Hastings Banda, idol of Nyasaland blacks, had threatened to walk...
...rented Cadillac and was whisked off through the sleeping borough of Queens to Manhattan's respectable Barclay Hotel. The V.I.P. luncheons and the ceremonial meetings with U.N. and U.S. representatives might help to mellow Lumumba after the past few weeks of fumbling and failure in his newly independent homeland...