Word: motherland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soldier's misadventures take place in rural Russia during the spring of 1941. Hitler is poised to doublecross his former ally Stalin and invade the Soviet motherland. Chonkin stomps about his business, fetching the firewood for the battalion kitchen. But when an antiquated military plane makes a forced landing in nearby Krasnoye, Chonkin is ordered there as a sentry. Before the first day ends, he has made himself at home in the village. He moves in with Nyura Belyashova, a postal clerk, shares her bed, cleans her house and tends her garden. He also moves the plane into...
...least one chapter in a bitter six-week power struggle that saw China's four top radical leaders, including Mao Tse-tung's widow Chiang Ch'ing, disgraced and placed under arrest. Peking editors waxed absolutely poetic about the new spirit of China: "Everywhere in our motherland, orioles sing and swallows dart...
...heat and drink, scattered industrialists sleep through the climax. The pageant comes to a close soon after, with a patriotic song extolling the virtues of materialism and the values of the Pudding: Lets all stay home Because in other lands People have to earn their pay. But in our motherland... Lets all be tots in tinseltown today. An open invitation for the elite that can buy it, to the ignorance and irresponsibility that O'Donnell naively calls "the innocence of the Pudding." Cheering. the onlookers wave champagne bottles...
...delivered by Teng Hsiao-ping. A silent mass of people lined the Avenue of Eternal Tranquillity as the hearse bearing Chou's remains moved slowly away to scatter the ashes, as China's official news agency put it, "in the rivers and on the soil of our motherland...
...accepted by the journalists who work for the nation's 830 dailies (combined circulation 9,436,000). Indeed, no major paper has shown defiance, including those owned by powerful businessmen who have in the past opposed Indira Gandhi. Only two newsmen, K.R. Malkani, editor of the right-wing Motherland, and Kuldip Nayar, editor of the Indian Express, have been imprisoned. But little change in news coverage has actually occurred because Indian journalists have traditionally depended on government press releases for most of their information. In the past, dissent has only appeared in editorials or in reports of speeches...