Word: bohemian
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...childhood accident? Family tragedy? Does he find it sexy, affecting? Mileva Maric was a dark- haired Serbian woman who dreamed of being a physicist, a pre-feminist fighter, 21 when she entered the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. There she met Albert Einstein, a 17-year-old bohemian with thick curly hair and dark, warm eyes, bedroom eyes. They became lovers, sharing classes, textbooks and his father's disapproval. In 1902 they had an illegitimate daughter, who disappeared. Albert and Mileva married. Revolution was in the air, and they were the first modern couple. For pillow talk they...
...secluded wood 55 miles east of Prague, smoking chimneys rise above the East Bohemian Chemical Enterprise. A large complex of ramshackle sheds and concrete buildings, the factory looks unprepossessing enough. But a "special production unit" is mixing batches of one of Czechoslovakia's most lethal exports: Semtex, the odorless, colorless plastic explosive of choice for terrorists the world over...
...years we had dissidents, just like in Poland and Russia. Then, in the early '80s we began to live. There were individualistic and bohemian groups of all stripes: hippies, Maoists, anarchists, human rights groups, lesbians, gays. It was a very colorful mix. And somewhat deterring. My wife Eva and I felt like white crows in that crowd. Though they were all very friendly to us, they even attacked the church, which gave them shelter. There were a lot of fights, informers, subversion. They could not possibly become a real political force. What they did was very brave, but it couldn...
...least 50,000 people rallied in Bratislava, and CTK also reported protest rallies in the Bohemian city of Usti nad Labem to the north, Gottwaldov to the east and Ostrova on the Polish border...
...Cambridge has already changed a lot," says one rent control tenant on Broadway. "People want to live in 'hip places' and the people who made it sort of bohemian can't afford to live there at free market prices...