Word: motherland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effort to drive him into exile. In 1980, Aksyonov and his wife Maya succumbed to pressure and left the Soviet Union. His citizenship was then taken away by the Supreme Soviet, and the Literary Gazette announced that he had chosen "the path of betrayal to the motherland...
...Polish eagle that crowns the monument, he placed a camouflaged box containing a tape recorder. From its speaker emerged the voice of Zbigniew Bujak, 27, one of the union's most active underground leaders. Declared Bujak: "We will continue our struggle for freedom and the independence of our motherland." It was a pointed reminder that the people had not abandoned their demands for greater freedom, despite the recent liberation of some 1,200 detainees and a vague promise from Party Boss General Wojciech Jaruzelski that martial law might be lifted by the end of the year...
Scotland was the Pope's biggest surprise. Anticipating a mild reception in the motherland of Presbyterianism, he found the people there the warmest of all. At the opening event, a rousing youth rally Monday evening at Murrayfield, some 50,000 young people waited through the afternoon for John Paul to arrive. "John Paul, John Paul, John Paul," they chanted rugby-style as the Pope reached the stage. Then they broke into song with the gospel anthem that accompanied the Pope in so many places: He's Got the Whole World in His Hands...
...somehow out of character. After all, it's coming from a men who has just been talking about having to move to a Black neighborhood because "When you live around white people, anything can happen." Equally out of place is a story he tells of his trip to "The Motherland--Africa," where he noticed there was no "inferior" race, a realization which caused him to cry. It made him give up using the word "nigger," which he says is a "word we use to describe our own wretchedness...
...leader imposes his version of order by imposing martial law and immediately appeals to his people's sense of nationalism to curb their nationalist aspirations. His appeals to the "Fatherland" evoke memories of the formerly martial Fatherland to Poland's west and provide a neat mate for the martial Motherland to Poland's east. Iran's religious/political leader imposes his version of order by imposing harsher measures than his military/political predecessor...