Word: lebensraum
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...interrupted more than a century ago when the French arrived to colonize Indochina. It is ironic that the Vietnamese, so often sentimentalized by the American Left as a simple and gentle peasant people, are the imperialists of the region, restlessly putting new Vietnamese settlements in neighboring countries, seeking Lebensraum...
...Department of Education had been signaling that enrollments would be on a downslide as the supply of 18-year-olds shrank from a 1979 high of 4.3 million toward 3.2 million in 1994. But when the students showed up last month, some of the crowds clamoring for Lebensraum were so outsize that dozens of schools had to scramble to find beds for everyone...
...that is Southeast Asia. On the plains, the Buddha's concepts of the "flood" (travail in the material world) and "further shore" (the search for nirvana) are apt metaphors for peasant lives constantly subjected to natural disasters. In mountain societies, which are often driven by a lust for Lebensraum, Buddhism's "middle way" tempers excesses...
...soldiers gathered at railway depots, the various nations-in-arms had little choice but to fight. The ideology of national mobilization tends to foster a feeling of security; however, it has also historically promoted military adventurism, and even the kind of expansionary nationalism dimly remembered today as cries for "lebensraum...
...course, few papers have taken the quest for new readers quite so far as the Times has in its San Diego campaign. But then, a restless quest for Lebensraum is another trait that the Times shares with Los Angeles. Since 1915, the city has expanded the size of its jurisdiction more than fourfold. How? By annexing more than 60 neighboring communities...