Word: bystrica
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...team's first game, a 90-80 exhibition win against Roto Banska Bystrica of Slovakia, Feaster scored 30 points, grabbed 15 rebounds and dished out five assists...
This weekend Harvard basketball fans were treated to a sneak peak of what will be an exciting show on campus during the winter. The coming attraction is the Harvard women's basketball team which took to the floor at Lavietes Pavilion Saturday night to battle Roto Banska Bystrica of Slovakia...
...early days of the cold war, central Slovakia became the heartland of the heavy-arms industry. The sleepy little town of Martin, 145 miles north of Bratislava, was the site of a tank factory that employed 11,000; nearby Dubnica churned out armored personnel carriers; down the road, Povazska Bystrica produced jet engines...
Everybody's Spy. Lausman had never lacked physical courage. In 1940 he helped organize the Prague anti-Nazi underground, escaping to London just a jump ahead of the Gestapo; in 1944 he parachuted into Slovakia to lead the abortive Banska Bystrica partisan rising. But as the world split anew between Communism and the West, he lacked the intellectual courage to choose. In 1946 he praised the Russians; on Feb. 20, 1948 he turned about and said: "We are not naive enough to offer ourselves up to the Communists." But five days later, when the Reds kidnaped Czechoslovakia, he stood...
...hunters stalked the countryside for a new quarry: farmers who owned more than 50 acres of land. The new "class enemies" were packed off to forced labor; their land was confiscated. Prague also named a pro-Communist priest, Dean Jan Dechet, to administer the vacant bishopric of Banska Bystrica. The Vatican struck back by excommunicating Dechet...