Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opposing team was led by Lieutenant Commander Kear of the New Zealand Navy who was a star player several years ago in his homeland, as were three of his team-mates. Coach Syd Cabot's Harvard team, with less than a week's practice behind them this season and with only ten of last fall's Varsity men, could only hope to gain experience in the informal game...
Secret Army. How strong is the Underground Army? The Poles claim 300,000 men, but this is probably an exaggeration. It is an army bivouacked deep in the homeland's pine and birch forests. It uses light arms cached by the old Polish Army, snatched from the Germans or parachuted from abroad. As a rule it has, until recently, avoided open battle with the heavily armed occupation forces...
...Hagana is Hebrew for "Defense," the title assumed by illegally armed Zionist extremists who believe in "direct action" to further a Jewish homeland...
...exile, observed the ritual of grief, not even shaving, until the day of liberation. Serb émigrés, already uneasy lest Peter II throw in his lot with Tito, now feared that he would further shake his standing among those still loyal to him in the faction-split homeland...
President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines, continuing in Miami his two-year fight for health and homeland, appointed Colonel Carlos P. Romulo his Secretary of Information and Public Relations, gave him the Distinguished Service Star of the Philippines in the presence of Philippine Chief of Staff Major General Basilio J. Valdes; the President's aide, Colonel Manuel Nieto; the President's doctor, Major Benvenuto R. Dino; and U.S. Army Intelligence's Lieut. Colonel R. C. Hornsby, security officer for Quezon...