Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hectoring mate," she lacked his "fighting canines" (teeth, not dogs) to fend off enemies, "she was hampered by a clinging infant," and when chased by a carnivorous cat, she "found there was no tree she could run up to escape." She "loathed getting her feet wet," but "when your homeland's turning into an inferno, the seaside's not at all a bad place...
...American defeat which would encourage aggression all over the world." This same attitude can be used to justify full-scale war or whatever involvement Nixon resolves is necessary to achieve an American victory. The South Vietnamese must feel as if they are fighting for America rather than for their homeland...
...high as five years and nine months, were recently given to three Croats, including one Roman Catholic friar, who were convicted of collaborating with Croatian nationalists abroad. There are probably no more than 1,000 active political agitators among the 235,000 Croats who live and work outside their homeland, principally in labor-short West Germany and Sweden, but those 1,000 manage to stir up more trouble than almost any other nation's migres. They are divided into rival groups, variously espousing antiCommunist, anti-Tito and anti-Serbian views, but sharing a common derivation from the Ustase, the notorious...
...resumption of large-scale bombing of North Viet Nam is the appropriate answer to that country's enhanced aggression against South Viet Nam [April 17]. That an aggressor army, equipped lavishly with the most deadly implements of war, should be allowed to ravage its neighbors while its own homeland remains exempt is ridiculous...
...Sekou Toure pleaded with the Ghana government to let the deposed leader come home to die. Most sentimental Ghanaians seemed willing, but the country's military rulers remained adamant. Only after his death did they relent and order flags lowered to half-mast before burying Nkrumah in his homeland...