Word: budapester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, during a recent revival at Budapest's Fovarosi Theater of the operetta Countess Maritza (vintage 1924), sang Count Tassilo Endrodi, the impoverished Hungarian nobleman who for the first time in his life has to work for a living. His plaintive song was timely enough to make a lot of Budapest theatergoers squirm. No longer may Hungarian gypsy fiddlers play as they please, nor may Count Endrodi cry into his Tokay with impunity. The Communists have clamped down on nostalgia...
Miss Draper was vice-chairman of the American Women's Congress Delegation to the World Federation of Democratic Women held in Budapest last year...
...Washington, Harry S. Truman declared that the trial by Budapest's "kangaroo court" was "infamous." Said Secretary of State Dean Acheson: "The people of the United States, and of all other freedom-loving nations, are sickened and horrified...
...Hills of Buda. U.S.-Hungarian relations deteriorated in a rapid spiral. First, the Hungarian government "requested" Robin Steussy, third secretary of the U.S. legation in Budapest, to leave the country, after charging him with helping Hungarians to escape into Austria...
...broadcast boomeranged back to Swedish Radio Chief Henrik Hahr. Hahr cautioned Szepesi that "sport is one thing and politics another," cabled Budapest to instruct their reporter to restrain himself to sportsmanlike commentaries. Budapest cabled a curt "reporter instructed...