Word: bohemia
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...bully boys of his Air Force were in no position to tangle with the R.A.F. on its vast sweeps across the Channel. While the Luftwaffe husbanded its strength, the R.A.F. slugged Nazi bases from Le Havre on up to the Baltic. They also reached 700 miles to Pilsen, Bohemia, where they bombed the huge Skoda works...
...radio also kept the Kittredges in a constant state of manic depression. "Neither [Christina] nor Canby was surprised when Hitler took Bohemia and Moravia, for this was what they had predicted when Chamberlain came back from Munich," but "they were numbed." They were shattered when "President Roosevelt recognized Franco the moment Madrid fell-like a man who has taken a physic, as Canby said, and can't wait to get to the bathroom...
...roomy Iowa City house, where his principal hobby was gardening, he lived in dignified semiretirement, entertained a continual stream of distinguished visitors, shook a gentle fist at Bohemia and the big cities, and preached the gospel of U.S. regionalism and the Iowa soil. More than any other U.S. painter, he had expressed the unashamed simplicity and dignified realism that lay behind the complacent, materialistic exterior of rural Midwestern life. Other painters might see and paint again the plain, practical beauty of the Iowa landscape. But Grant Wood had discovered...
...gift of U.S. Czechs. Flowers were often strewn at its base by ardent Czechs in tribute to President Wilson's part in founding the CzechoSlovak Republic. Last week it was carted away by order of Adolf Hitler's blood-drenched chief executioner, Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich of Bohemia-Moravia...
...Reinhard Heydrich, Reich's Protector in Bohemia and Moravia, whom the Czechs think of as Reznik (Butcher), last week ordered the execution of five butchers accused of the "illegal sale" of hogs, cattle and other animals...