Southern Rhodesia

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noun

the former name (until 1964) of Zimbabwe

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Words nearby Southern Rhodesia

southernly, southernmost, Southern Ocean, southern oscillation, Southern Paiute, Southern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesian, Southern Sotho, Southern Stars, southern toad, Southern Triangle

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How to use Southern Rhodesia in a sentence

In Afghanistan, there was a push to take back the southern province Helmand.
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Although Southern did not automatically equal neo-Confederate, at times the distinction could easily get lost.
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Yet all too often the line between Southern and Confederate can get blurred.
Steve Scalise Shows There’s a Fine Line Between Confederate & Southern|Lloyd Green|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Rather, it was the Democrats who initially were the Southern Party.
Steve Scalise Shows There’s a Fine Line Between Confederate & Southern|Lloyd Green|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST

We see the Southern segregationists who threatened his life and that of his family on an almost daily basis.
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See how those distant peaks rise serenely over the southern horizon!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
My mother now tells me that she knew of this mistake, an error of the New York paper in copying the item from a Southern journal.
The Boarded-Up House|Augusta Huiell Seaman
There was hardly to be found in all Southern Tennessee a more contented, shiftless, ill-bestead family than theirs.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
Miss Anne smiled kindly, not dreaming of his perplexity, amused by his Southern warmth.
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The last three years I've been in the Judith Basin, and southern outfits haven't begun to come in there yet.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair