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Word: homelands (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...population of Palestine reached 400,000 Arabs and 60,000 Jews, scattered over 50,000 square miles of abandoned wasteland. This is how the first Zionists found their homeland, when they began to pave the way for their nation to return home...

Author: By Nissan Degani, | Title: Palestinians and Zionism: Searching for a Homeland | 2/28/1978 | See Source »

...History teaches us, however, that from 1072 until 1948 the country was ruled by the Seljuks (1072-1098), Crusaders (1099-1291), Mamluks (1291-1516), Ottomans (1516-1918) and the British (1918-1948), who were given the mandate by the League of Nations to facilitate the establishment of a Jewish homeland in "Palestine" on both banks of the Jordan River...

Author: By Nissan Degani, | Title: Palestinians and Zionism: Searching for a Homeland | 2/28/1978 | See Source »

...directors are Francophones. French remained the dominant language on the factory floor, where Gallic Quebeckers held disproportionate numbers of the lowest-paying jobs. English was the tongue of management. Some French Quebeckers felt that they were being treated as "the white niggers of America"?and in their homeland to boot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Secession v. Survival | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...arch-conservative Governor, on why he turned down an invitation to visit the People's Republic: "I will take no part in giving aid and comfort to Communist China by lending the prestige of Governor for a baby-carriage guided tour of the enemy's homeland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 30, 1978 | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

...image of the Pistols as a pioneering force in the movement known variously as punk rock or new wave. In Britain, punk is the voice (some would say vice) of working-class kids who cannot find jobs and care not a whit for the traditions of their homeland. In the U.S. the movement is more purely musical: groups like the Ramones, Talking Heads, Television and Richard Hell and the Voidoids have rejected the rococo sophistication of much 1970s rock and turned back to basic buzz and blast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Sex Pistols Are Here | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

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