Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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As justification for their dominion over the Holy Land, the Hebrews point to past days of Biblical glory. However, such a far-off historical precedent does not warrant depriving the Arabs of a land they have held for over twelve hundred years. Deplorable as may be the persecution of the...
> 1) By patrioteer TIME means to describe the professional patriot, the kind of refuge-seeking scoundrel who waves a red-white-&-blue handkerchief when he should be wiping his own nose.
In Shanghai, Chinese patriots played the grimmer game of "shoot the traitors," killed Tcheng Loh, Foreign Minister in Japan's "Reformed" Nanking Government, a former Chinese Minister to France (1920-27). Like many of his colleagues, Tcheng Loh found Nanking too hot for him, some time ago took refuge...
Intoxicated by the rabble-rousing, a young Fascist dashed from the crowd and slugged a passing Jew, Jacobo Glantz, a naturalized Mexican citizen who is literary editor of the Yiddish newspaper, The Pathway. Glantz took refuge in the nearby hat shop of his wife but before the police could get...
"During the Great Depression, however, the farms became a refuge for many out of work, and the nine-year loss was soon more than recovered. As business improved, public policies of various kinds have helped to prevent another net reduction of the farm population, and the current estimate for January...