Word: motherland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Purge Committee. Moderates in the Committee-like the tea merchant Wang Tien-teng-broadcast middle-of-the-road demands: election of mayors; public enterprises to be run by Formosans; abolition of monopolies. Said Wang: "We do not request independence. We support the Central Government and we love our motherland...
Handbook for the Future. Today in Russia Dostoevsky's works are officially permitted, but not encouraged for mass reading. This fact, coupled with the novel's own complexities, has caused A Raw Youth to be neglected in its motherland. Dostoevsky himself hoped that his cumbersome novel would have somewhat more survival value. In a kind of confession of failure he wrote at the end of it: "When the angry strife of the day has passed . . . then a future artist will discover beautiful forms for depicting past lawlessness and chaos! Then such [works as this] so long as they...
...Motherland Impregnable." Last week Russia gave her neighbors a relatively quiet time. Stalin did use the 28th anniversary of the Red Army's founding to tell his comrades that they must raise still higher "the military and economic might of the Soviet state [and] make the borders of our motherland impregnable against enemies...
...after the Song of the Motherland was played, crowds waiting in the drizzle heard the first order of the day. Bialystok had fallen...
...traitor," a "lizard" and a "miserable weakling." Next day the Soviet Embassy itself formally repudiated Kravchenko as only one of the U.S.S.R.'s 3,000 U.S. employes, as a mere "inspector of pipes," and finally as a "deserter" from the Russian Army, who "refused to return to his motherland for military service...