Word: motherland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students, all waving pompoms that transformed Tiananmen Square into shifting patterns of bright color. One huge float, representing the Yangtze River hydraulic project, had water gushing over a model dam; in another, a 14-ft. robot bunked, waved a bouquet of flowers and blurted out, "Long live the motherland...
...their future. Under the new agreement, in 1997 Hong Kong will become a "Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China," with "a high degree of autonomy." But for all their celebrated ingenuity and adaptability, the Hong Kong Chinese fear that their new, sometimes draconian Communist motherland might either crush or mishandle the community's laissez-faire capitalist system. In the words of James McGregor, director of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, "Prosperity, in a free-enterprise territory like ours, requires confidence, and confidence is a delicate plant. You cannot have big, heavy-booted...
Chinese athletes did, and for every winner piously proclaiming that the victory was "for the Motherland," another, like Featherweight Lifter Chen Weiqiang, 26, put it more personally: "I got the gold medal, and it feels good." Before leaving China for the Games, Gymnast Li Ning, 20, who won three golds, a silver and a bronze, had spoken in a similar vein: "I am going to Los Angeles to pick up gold medals. I know what I am talking about, and I mean what...
...white-columned Hall of St. George last week, they could see the long roster of names engraved in Cyrillic script on marble tablets along the chamber's walls. The list is an honor roll of czarist military regiments, officers and soldiers who displayed extraordinary bravery in defending the motherland, or rodina, as Russians say with almost mystical fervor. The dignitaries were there to represent the nations most closely allied to the Soviet Union: its six satellites in Eastern Europe, plus three poorer relations from the Third World: Cuba, Viet Nam and Mongolia...
With U.S.-Soviet relations close to rockbottom, the rare COMECON meeting represented Moscow's urgent summons for present and future solidarity from its allies. The motherland needed friends and comfort...