Word: nationalistice
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Because Shinto taught that the Emperor was the descendant of the gods who had created Japan, the religion was made a patriotic duty for all Japanese by the country's prewar nationalistic leaders. Shrines received state support, and priests became government officials. The ancient Shinto slogan, Hakko ichiu, meaning...
Human societies do make war and kill one another's members. But human wars are seldom simple struggles for food-yielding territory, like the summer wars of birds. They are fought for complicated reasons-religious, idealistic, nationalistic, commercial, dynastic-that have little in common with animal or Australopithecine motives...
Turks who visited the West returned to the country with moders military ideas, Western thought and the concept of nationalism. After nationalistic sentiments evolved in the country, "the notion of being a Turk became extremely important." The Turks massacred many Armenians and Greeks, he said, "in an effort to "Turkify...
Goldwater stressed the folly of giving American financial aid to the U.N. to fight an anti-Communist regime in the Congo. "The idea of the U.N.," he asserted, "is not a practical one--we can see that in the Congo today. Nations are always going to be nationalistic whether they...
At last Dutt won a contract to build the $28 million Durgapur steam power plant in West Bengal. He got the job by combining the nationalistic appeal that Indian engineers would do most of the work with a reassuring promise that the U.S. Kuljian Corp. would stand by to assist...