Word: austro-hungarian
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...beginning of this century, the waves of immigrants from czarist Russia, Poland and the Austro-Hungarian Empire put a salvationist mark on Israel "as indelible," Elon suggests, "as that imprinted by the Pilgrim Fathers in the early stages of the American Republic." Counting 102 countries of origin for the 2,500,000 Israelis in 1970, the author writes: "Ethnically, Israelis may be a hybrid; as political creatures, they are children of 19th century Europe." Aglow with humanitarian socialism, Zionists also dreamed of a morally perfect society rather than just one more chauvinistic nation-state. They discovered their image of Utopia...
...Burns' and Friedman's careers have been curiously intertwined. Burns was born in Eastern Galicia, then a portion of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now part of the U.S.S.R.; Friedman, whose parents emigrated from that general area, studied under Burns at Rutgers, and they now own neighboring country homes...
...minimum-wage law in the 1890s, my parents might not have been able to migrate to the U.S.. because there would have been fewer job opportunities available." If Franz Joseph had instituted a minimum-wage law, that would have reduced employment opportunities in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and encouraged, not discouraged, emigration...
...PATRIOT FOR ME. Playwright John Osborne tells the story of Alfred Redl, a homosexual officer of the decaying Austro-Hungarian Empire who was forced to commit suicide when it was found that he had been selling state secrets to the Russians. Osborne's voice is badly muffled, and he cannot seem to work up the passion to breathe inner life into the play...
...PATRIOT FOR ME. Playwright John Osborne tells the story of Alfred Redl, a homosexual officer of the decaying Austro-Hungarian Empire who was forced to commit suicide when it was found that he had been selling state secrets to the Russians. Osborne's voice is badly muffled, and he cannot seem to work up the passion to breathe an inner life into the play...