Word: czech
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thousands of "freedom leaflets" spilled from huge plastic balloons wafted over their lands from the West. Western Europeans are apt to regard the balloons (a U.S. idea) as a lot of hot air. But Red army units in Austria opened up on them with antiaircraft guns, and the Czech Communists sent armed guards, at least one of whom was captured, to destroy the balloon-launching sites. Two months ago the Hungarian government made an angry official protest to the U.S. that the leaflets were inciting anti-Communist Hungarians to rebellion and subversion...
...economics teacher, began political life as a Socialist and a disciple of Czechoslovakia's honored Masaryk-Benes liberalism. She won two medals for her anti-Nazi underground activity in the war, but lost her husband (the Germans shot him). She became a changed woman. When the Communists destroyed Czech democracy in 1948, Ludmila stood by without a quiver, and even helped the Communists to swallow up her own party. Oldtime friends couldn't understand the switch, but Ludmila knew what she was doing: while they went into exile she went from Industry Minister to Minister of Food...
Delicate Subject. After all the Soviet propaganda against "guns for the Huns," the Communists found East German rearmament a delicate subject. Czech Premier Siroky suggested that since "the revival of West German militarism" particularly menaces East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Poland, these three countries should "take emphatic, joint measures for the safeguarding of their frontiers." Russia does not usually encourage pacts among its satellites. U.S. experts speculated that the Russians wanted to set up the Poles and Czechs as watchdogs on the East German army. It would need watching. For since the riots of June 17, 1953, no Communist could...
Goodyear Playhouse presented an uneven play called Thunder of Silence, but gave star billing to an exciting new actress, Inger Stevens. Blonde, fragile and hauntingly attractive. Swedish-born Actress Stevens, 20, dominated the play in her role of a Czech refugee set down bewilderingly on a Midwest farm: her big-eyed silences were more eloquent than all the speeches of her fellow actors. Newcomer Stevens was recently seen as a teenager on the defunct Jamie series, with Child Star Brandon De Wilde...
...crouching, he shivered with cold as the car rolled westward. After the second day, he could not eat his dry bread. By the end of the sixth day, his drinking water was used up. It took the slow freight that carried his crate three days to get to the Czech frontier at Bratislava. It stood for seven days on a siding near Prague before moving on to East Germany. By the time the freight chugged into Hamburg last week, Komoroczky had been trapped in his crate for 13 days...