Word: homeland
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...Confession follows, moment by agonized moment, the arrest, interrogation, trial and conviction of an old-line Communist. Gerard (Yves Montand) is a Czech Jew who fought with the International Brigade in Spain, served in the French underground and was imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp before returning to his homeland after World War II. Traces of Z are immediately apparent. On a gray January day in 1951, Gerard is cut off in a Prague street by two carloads of secret police who rough him up, blindfold him and whisk him off to prison without a word...
...imaginative, intensely secretive about his private life-his wife Zofia has never been interviewed-Gomulka is totally a product of Poland's experience with Socialism. He was born 65 years ago in the small industrial town of Krosno, the son of an oilworker who had returned to the homeland after failing as an emigrant to America. The family was poor; young Wladyslaw left school at 14 and became a locksmith and a Socialist almost simultaneously...
...became First Secretary of the party and a minister in Poland's new Communist-dominated Government of National Unity. But Gomulka, an ardent nationalist as well as a Communist, soon ran afoul of the Stalinist tendencies in the Polish party. He had long insisted that his homeland must follow the "Polish road to Socialism," that it could not imitate the Soviet Union. He opposed collectivization and supported Tito. For this behavior he was forced to acknowledge "selfcriticism" in 1949 and was relieved of his posts. He was arrested in 1951 and remained a virtual prisoner until 1956, when...
Weekdays, the Pilgrims looked like any other Englishmen: wearing the rich browns or the Lincoln greens then popular in their homeland. Governor Bradford even had a red vest and William Brewster a violet coat. The traditional dour grays and blacks were principally for Sundays. Their observance of the gloomy Sunday, however, was a practice not without its perils. Since the Pilgrims believed that a baby born on a Sunday had been conceived on a Sunday, preachers thundered when a woman gave birth on a Sunday. One preacher stopped such harangues after his own wife gave birth to twins during...
...fervor found nowhere else. This is entirely fitting, since the game is a true red-white-and-blue, exclusively American sport. To be sure, Canada has a weak, watered-down version of the game, played primarily by onetime American college stars who couldn't cut it in their homeland. The British Commonwealth and certain nations associated with its cultural tradition indulge in a footballish sport called rugby, which seems to consist in considerable part of beefy mesomorphs huddling in a heap called a "scrum" and jostling each other for possession of the ball. Throughout most of the non-American...