Word: separatist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which, in Toynbee's view, the earlier Hellenes had been so suicidally blind. In carving out his empire, he directed 80 of his highest-ranking officers to marry Persian women. But the experiment in marital one-worldism was shortlived. The Hellenic world continued to writhe in violent separatist agonies until Rome's Augustan peace was imposed upon...
...African intellectuals in Léopoldville united to form the Congo's first native political party, with the aim of "independence" but "in a reasonable time and by means of peaceful negotiations." Whites are agitating for more local autonomy and have set up the Union Katangaise with the separatist aim of breaking up the Congo into a number of smaller states, each with control of its own affairs, and responsible to Brussels instead of the colonial government general...
...within the Soviet hierarchy, he put them away with historic callousness: most of them were summarily shot. This precedent is still honored on occasion in satellite nations such as Rumania, which, in the course of its current purge of "revisionists," recently executed eight citizens of Hungarian ancestry accused of "separatist plotting." But in Russia itself, Nikita Khrushchev, with a little more refinement, generally spares the lives of the men he purges, subjects them instead to a Muscovite version of the Chinese water torture...
...islands mock Mao Tse-tung on his very doorstep. (Tatan and Erhtan, with a combined area of 143 acres, lie smack in the mouth of Amoy harbor only 2½ miles from shore.) Moreover, since Formosa itself was under Japanese rule from 1895 to 1945 and has a strong separatist tradition, the islands of the Quemoy complex-together with Matsu and a handful of other islets to the north-constitute the only indisputably Chinese soil remaining in Nationalist hands. To hold these largely symbolic specks Chiang Kai-shek has crammed them with 95,000 troops...
...very doubtful that this principal--head of one of the best schools in educationally-praised Westchester County, N.Y., really believed in this dichotomy of upbringing; certainly in her own school, which, many parents believed, was run by the PTA, she did not practice it. But her remark indicates a separatist view of the parent-school relationship which many educators, in their quiet, undisturbed hours, visualize as an ideal one: the school free from parental interference, at liberty to introduce the subjects it wishes and the textbooks it chooses, without the twitching nose of the community pressing against the window pane...