Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...earned a captain's commission in a bayonet charge during the war with Peru, was in Garcia Moreno penitentiary under 16 years' sentence for participation in an abortive revolt protesting the Peru-Ecuador border settlement. The youngest son. Lieut. José Maria ("Pepe"), 32, banned from his homeland, risked his life in a Mexico City bull ring in a benefit appearance (gross gate: 16,000 pesos) for Ecuadorians made homeless in last spring's earthquake...
...desperate for acetone, needed to make explosives. It had to be distilled from wood, and there were hardly enough trees in the world to supply the demand. Dr. Weizmann found a way to make synthetic acetone, solved the shortage overnight, in return won the British promise of a homeland for Jews in Palestine...
First nation to re-establish headquarters on the Continent to fight the Axis, Yugoslavia last week transferred its army high command from Cairo back to the homeland and made hawk-beaked, fabulous General Draja Mihailovich chief of staff. Because some of his most effective support comes from Communist partisans, who were probably better organized among Slavic peoples than any others in Europe, it was a good guess that General Mihailovich's appointment had the assent of the U.S.S.R. Like most other Serbs, Mihailovich had been pro-Russian in the long-standing Balkan struggle between Teuton and Slav...
...among the French people. The third cause was a miscalculation on the part of the French leader, Marshal Petain, who failed to take into account the strength of the British will to win. Expecting the British to yield, he surrendered before the Germans should completely overrun his homeland...
...Eighth Army as a whole is greener to the desert than it used to be. Its veteran core-upward of 50,000 leathery Australians-was called back to defend its homeland...