Word: motherland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle had sailed as safely through the political storms as through the rain and hail of Algerian weather-though he had stayed out of Algeria's biggest cities. In Paris, his right-wing opponents in the Assembly were reduced to hand-wringing pleas (''the motherland cannot abandon its sons!"). There were only three leaders with the dynamism to rally the European extremists of Algiers-General Raoul Sa-lan, fiery Pierre Lagaillarde and Jacques Soustelle. once both a Cabinet member and close friend of De Gaulle. Not one of them was in either Algeria or France. General Salan...
...final wild-eyed Paris press conference, Nikita took time out to launch into unsolicited discourse on his Defense Minister. Malinovsky, Khrushchev declared, was "a hero of World War I and II ... a person who has often been decorated for his outstanding services ... a true son of a socialist motherland...
...party-that the spectator can only wonder how the director managed to escape with a mere reprimand. As Cherkassov plays him, Ivan-Stalin is a full-blown paranoiac and power maniac, and his hysterical protest that his crimes have been committed "not for myself, but for the motherland'' has the ring and the glare of madness...