Word: bohumil
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...Over the years, Schweik has been the model for dozens of fictional characters - among them Yossarian in Catch-22 - and he was a particularly favored template for the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal, who was Menzel's friend and collaborator for decades. Menzel's finest film, Closely Watched Trains, which won the foreign film Academy Award in 1967, was based on a Hrabal story about a feckless railroad worker who entirely by accident becomes a hero during World War II. I Served the King of England, the Czech Republic's entry for the 2008 Academy Awards, is very much a part...
...Szeski, an equity analyst at CDM Pekao in Warsaw. "Right now the valuations are coming back to more reasonable levels." Although the region's markets are expected to gain about 5% or 10% over the next three to six months, most analysts advise caution over the longer term. Says Bohumil Pavlica, a broker with Prague-based BH Securities: "We have had four, almost five years of [more or less] uninterrupted growth, and now the sobering up will come." - By Jan Stojaspal A Short Haul Germany's Lufthansa confirmed it was in talks with Swiss International Air Lines about taking over...
Wood threw a right hook with something Czech novelist Bohumil Hrabal spotted on a sign in his Prague dry-cleaner’s: “Some stains can be removed only by the destruction of the material itself...
...Germain, Bohumil Hrabal, Franz Kafka, Milan Kundera, Jan Neruda, Gustav Meyrink, Rainer Maria Rilke, and others...