Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their leader, appropriately, was an uprooted soul. Lean, sinewy Markos Vafiades, like many other Greek Communists, was a refugee from Turkey. In 1922, he was caught up in that melancholy trek to his Greek "homeland" where he had no home, known as the "exchange of populations" after the Greco-Turkish War. Other Communist leaders were spawned in that tragic migration. Nicolas Zachariades, father of Greek Communism; Demetrios Partsalides, who became head of the Communist-front EAM; Petros Roussos, who became editor of Rizospastis, principal Communist newspaper in Greece; Roussos' petite, intense wife Chryssa Hadjivassilou, who now likes to think...
...face of new developments in their homeland, University Czechoslovakians met last night at Phillips Brooks House with F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, to discuss the new Communist-dominated government of that country, but arrived at no concrete conclusions...
Judge's Choice. As the little girl had noticed, exhibition Bedlingtons look more like lambs than dogs. Their natural topcoat grows fairly long, but handlers trim it. In their northern English homeland, where the breed originated around 1825, Bedlingtons were anything but lamblike. Tough miners of Bedlington used them to hunt badgers and otters; sometimes they pitted two Bedlingtons together in finish fights for big wagers...
...Homeland. Betancourt got a quick answer. Roman y Reyes (whose nephew, Dictator Anastasio Somoza, really runs Nicaragua) soon cabled back that the planes had been confiscated, the Venezuelans arrested. Said he: "These planes will not leave Nicaraguan territory to attack the noble homeland of Bolivar...
...land cursed by violence, the Post has raised its voice firmly, if not always effectively, for moderation. Last spring, when Playwright Ben Hecht was egging on the homeland's terrorists, Agronsky sternly wrote: "You are making yourself responsible for a criminal insanity that is killing Jews as well as Britons...