Word: motherland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fate of the British Empire, so the colonial history of The Indies roughly parallels that of British-owned India: a period of government by the Dutch East India Co., followed by The Netherlands Government taking over; ruthless suppression of native resistance; enforced labor as a "tribute" to the "Motherland"; a change of masters for eleven years during the Napoleonic wars when the British temporarily took the islands; institution of puppet native rulers who are always "advised" by a resident Dutchman; gradual, systematic improvement of colonial Government, bringing with it greater investments, wiser methods of exploitation, louder demands for native self...
Giddy Puerto Ricans last week leaped to the conclusion that the U. S. was about to go to war, that they would have to fight for a Motherland that many of them love none too well. Basis of these rumors was a braided assemblage at Governor Blanton Winship's palace, La Fortaleza, in San Juan. Admiral Arthur Japy Hepburn arrived with a retinue of officers to look at Isla Grande, a 300-acre smudge in upper San Juan Harbor, to see whether it would be useful as a Caribbean naval and air base...
...pointed Star of David. Some have for an epitaph Here rests in honored glory an American Soldier known but to God, which is also graven over the Unknown Soldier at Arlington. Theirs the largest U. S. cemetery abroad, containing almost half the bodies not returned to the Motherland...
...undermine the power of the Red Army and to prepare for . . . the defeat of the Red Army in event of an attack against it. ... The special court session found all eight guilty of violating their military oath, of treason to the Red Army and of treason to the motherland and decided to deprive them of all military ranks and to sentence all of them to the highest measure of criminal punishment...
...Lady Tweedsmuir may be shrewdly guessed from a major pronouncement during the campaign by Premier Bennett. Though pro-English, a personal friend of the King, and with the warmest feelings for the Mother Country and her aristocracy, Mr. Bennett on the stump felt obliged to say to Canadians: "The Motherland is still vigorous and powerful, but it is no longer the directive machine of our national life. . . . Relationship between Canada and Great Britain still constitutes an unsolved problem...