Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA-Represented at the first Cominform meeting by Rudolf Slansky. A fierce, red-haired butcher's son who became the Kremlin's hatchet man in Czechoslovakia, he was considered the real power behind Klement Gottwald, front man in the coup of 1948. But in Czechoslovakia's recent struggle for power, it was Gottwald, not Slansky, who came out on top. Accused of "activities against the state" last December, Slansky was stripped of all offices. Disposition: "in custody," awaiting trial...
...Harsch had reported from Paris that the Trib was a "special asset" to the Administration for its "nuisance value." U.S. diplomats negotiating at European conference tables, he said, could always turn down a proposal with the explanation that "Congress wouldn't stand for it," or the "Tribune would butcher us over that one." Wrote Harsch: "Considering the less than affectionate attitude which has long characterized relations between the State Department [and the Trib], it may come as something of a surprise to readers to learn that the Trib was regarded by American diplomats . . . as one of their major assets...
...inflammable materials, the ship has no wooden ornaments or canvas paintings; public rooms are decorated with cold aluminum and glass sculptures and panels, or flame-resistant Dynel fabrics. Furniture and life preservers are stuffed with flameproof glass fiber instead of kapok. The only wooden objects on board are the butcher's blocks and the pianos. Even the orchestra leaders' batons are aluminum...
...wanted children, left his wife and two sons for some years-and gave them a living allowance of $8 a week. Even after he came back to his family, he seldom spoke except to quarrel with his mother-in-law, who was apt to roam the house brandishing a butcher's knife...
Schehr explained that he first met Mettwurst as a boy when somebody handed him a grilled Mett sandwich at the annual turkey-shoot of the Low German Shooting Society. Years later, old feelings were stirred anew when he wandered into the butcher shop of William P. Schmidt in Reading, Ohio and smelled the teasing aroma of smoked Mettwurst. For the past five years he has been a twice-a-week customer at the shop, traveling two miles each way for his Monday and Thursday Mett. Schehr could understand how Bohling felt about his loss, and said...