Word: antonin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prague, where President Antonin Zapotocky himself attended the games, the arena was packed with Heroes of Labor, Deserving Teachers of the People, Communist Activists. Cheers for the Canadians were diffident, and the game was rough. Czechs, who object to the Canadians' enthusiastic body checking, climbed up the backs of Penticton players and slashed with their skates, an unforgivable sin in the West. The Czech referees' whistles were remarkably silent. After the Vs had tied one game, 3-3, and won the next, 6-0, Penticton's player-coach, Grant Warwick, had to skate around the ice blowing...
...Released the text of his letter to Czech President Antonin Zapatocky, asking for the repatriation of Bill Oatis (see PRESS) as one way to ease the tensions between the two countries...
...Associated Press Correspondent William Oatis, the Czech Communists put their best propaganda foot forward. Oatis was released, the Czechs announced, because of a pleading letter from his wife. Last week the White House gave out the true story. Two months ago, President Eisenhower wrote a letter to Czech President Antonin Zapotocky, pointing out that the U.S. would consider easing up the economic squeeze on Czechoslovakia only if Oatis was freed from his ten-year sentence on an espionage charge. Wrote Ike: "If your government will release Mr. Oatis . . . the United States Government . . . is prepared to negotiate . . . the issues arising from...
Prime Minister Antonin Zapotocky (rhymes with Trotsky), a gaunt old man of 69 with stainless-steel teeth, delivered the longest funeral oration (27 minutes). An Old Bolshevik and longtime trades unionist, Zapotocky had once been popular with the Czech workers, but had alienated them by harsh complaints and horny-handed methods of spurring production...
...days later, Prague's rubber-stamp Parliament voted Antonin Zapotocky into the presidency, by a vote of 271 to ). On instructions from the central committee new President Zapotocky appointed as Prime Minister Viliam Siroky, boss of the Slovak party, and, as leader of the party secretariat, another party hack, Antonin Novotny. Since none of the three had any real stature, this seemed to be a stopgap arrangement. It was also a rebuff to Gottwald's ruthless, ambitious, unpopular son-in-law, Alexei Cepicka, Defense Minister who failed to move up an inch. But perhaps Cepicka was a sleeper...