Word: antonin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stockholm's Central Station the Czech ice hockey team lined up to take the southbound train. The players had just won the world's championship and they were in an alcoholic mood. Happiest of all was hefty, beaming Manager Antonin Vo-dicka. "Everybody here?" he asked. "We could not find Marek," glowered the thinlipped man whom Prague had sent along to act as the team's Communist chaperon. But Vodicka was unconcerned. "Maybe he's in the train," he hiccoughed and stumbled in himself...
Czechoslovakia's Premier Antonin Zapotocky showed up for the winter sports at a resort in eastern Bohemia...
...Usti-nad-labem, Czechoslovakia, tactful city fathers changed the name of General Eisenhower Embankment to Premier Antonin Zapotocky Embankment, and the name of Marshal Tito Street to Jan Sverma Street (after a late national Communist hero...
Oxford & Admiration. As Monsieur X, Antonin Besse had explained last fall, in part, why he had given so much to Oxford. No Oxford man himself, he had admired Oxonians as acquaintances and employees, wanted more young men trained as they had been. Besse has not yet explained one further mystery: he sent his own two sons to Cambridge...
Last week Antonin Besse was in Aden and was not talking. Said an employee in his London branch office: "The old man won't like it that his name is out. For 50 years he has worked on the principle that the less people know about him, the less trouble he will have." Oxford authorities felt the same way. They did not have all the cash in hand yet, and as one undergraduate cracked: "They sure don't want to get the old man in a huff and have him take the money back. That would...