Word: landing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conflict in Palestine, land of refuge for Jews, had created a refugee problem of its own. Panic-stricken over Israeli military successes, 300,000 Arabs had fled from their Palestine homes. With no food and few possessions of their own, they now live in refugee camps among Arab neighbors. Arab governments want to send them back...
...Purple Land. Uruguay is one of only two countries in South America (the other: Venezuela) which are not running out of dollars. In the first five months of this year, Uruguay ran her dollar kitty up from $32 million to $40 million. The Uruguayan peso rides steady at 1.9 to the dollar. But unlike oil-rich Venezuela, to which a plethora of dollars has brought sky-high prices, Uruguay has avoided inflation...
...this Uruguayans can partly thank the pastoral plenty of their purple land. A year ago, things did not seem so good. Uruguay had lost $69 million in foreign exchange in a year. Wool, the chief commodity Uruguay could sell directly for dollars, was not so plentiful in Uruguay in 1947. Now she has a bumper wool crop and a wheat crop big enough to pay off earlier borrowing from Argentina and leave some wheat for export...
...pledge myself to rally the masses to defend the Soviet Union, the land of victorious socialism. I pledge myself to remain at all times a vigilant and firm defender of the Leninist line of the party, the only line that insures the triumph of Soviet power in the United States...
...Reserve. Last week, ready to sail home, the students reported on the land they had seen. Their favorite American: Eisenhower; their favorite state: Colorado. They had asked innumerable and pointed questions about Negro problems in the South, about isolationism in the Midwest. When one Midwesterner asked about the Marshall Plan, a French girl replied: "I do not wish to offend, but to properly discuss the Marshall Plan one should not eat for two days before...