Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Four centuries ago, it became Europe's first port in China. In the 19th Century it was eclipsed by Hong Kong, which is four hours southeast by steamship. It fell into a somnolent decadence, lived shabbily on gambling and other shady practices, until even in the Portuguese homeland it became known as the shameful "city of sin and opium...
...defection. "It was not that the staff of this embassy has not been paid since last June," he mused. "It has been demonstrated that Chinese diplomats can go unpaid for a whole year without damage to morale. It is perhaps a desire to keep in touch with the homeland, perhaps a political disagreement...
...several carriers at the Coral Sea and Midway is not an argument for more carriers. As it happens, the most striking parts of this film show our carriers being severely damaged. The argument of the movie's admirals is that they intend to carry the war to the Japanese homeland; this never happens in the film, and in the actual war the Army Air Forces did some bombing too. If the movie settles the interservice conflict for you, there is a recruiting van full of bluejackets parked in front of the Metropolitan Theater...
...years ago Author Paul shifted his gaze to his homeland, started a multivolumed story of his life. In My Old Kentucky Home he takes a look at the third U.S. community on the Paul autobiographical itinerary: Louisville...
...makes little difference where one studies the record, whether of surrealism, dadaism, abstractionism, cubism, expressionism or futurism. The evidence of evil design is everywhere...The question is...who has brought down this curse upon us; who has let into our homeland this horde of germ-carrying art vermin...