Word: mainlanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forced into counterattacks, would give back more than it got. If Communist aircraft attacked Quemoy or Formosa, U.S. forces might follow in hot pursuit to Communist mainland bases, might well bomb these bases...
...evening, but in these northern latitudes the sun was still above the horizon. The sea thundered against the great cliffs of Mainland, the largest of the Shetland Islands; in lonely Footabrough inlet brilliant red and purple sea urchins bobbed in the swell along the shore. Out beyond the three-mile limit rode the Ukraina and two other trawlers of a Soviet fishing fleet...
...beginnings, nonetheless, were undeniably socialist. A Land Authority began to enforce an old law limiting corporate sugar holdings to 500 acres, broke up the big mainland-owned companies, formed collective-like "proportional profit" cane plantations. A TVA-style Water Resources Authority took over power production from several private power companies, and began wide-scale irrigation as well. Using $10.7 million in treasury funds, Fomento built or took over factories to make cement, glass and cardboard (for rum bottles and cases), shoes, tile...
...Mexico. The kids run in packs; no one seems to mind the casual sleeping around, and gossip is the bloodstream of social life. When the men are not fishing or working on their boats, they drink and brawl. As Catholics, they sometimes go to the church at a mainland town and give a welcome of sorts to the priest when he visits the island. But tempers are quick, violence is always near the surface, and the blazing heat is the most prominent fact of life...
...assaults. Late in the week, abandoning all attempts to keep open a line of diplomatic retreat, insurgent leaders took a public pledge not to submit to Paris until De Gaulle governed France. The rebels seemed to have all the initiative and unity. Without risking an invasion of the French mainland, they could set off troubles, as in Corsica. And in Tunisia, violent fighting broke out between Tunisian army units and the garrison at Remada, one of the ten bases France still holds in its former North African protectorate-a development which gave new reality to the explosive possibility that...