Word: czech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five minutes before noon on the fatal day, with German troops actually in motion toward the Czech border which they were to cross at 2 p.m., Il Duce in Rome rang up Chancellor Hitler at Berlin and they talked for 45 minutes. The Führer had received that morning a second appeal for peace from President Roosevelt...
...State Department to help smooth rocky relations between Haig and the White House staff, Clark came to Washington. His confirmation hearing was a debacle. As background in foreign affairs he listed his work as a young lawyer for a Salzburg ski-binding company, his wife's Czech origins and the education of his children in Germany. At one point, when Democratic Senator John Glenn asked for his views on official recognition of Taiwan, the Judge answered, "I think it could be very dangerous for me to have a personal opinion in this...
...University of Santa Clara. Although he never graduated, his grades were good enough to get him into Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. But after a year there, he was drafted. He served as a counterintelligence agent in Germany, where he met his wife, Joan Brauner, a Czech refugee working for the U.S. Army...
...less than 5% for most major domestic brands. "Our beer is richer, heavier, hoppier," says William Newman, 36, the founder of Wm. S. Newman Brewing (1982 sales: $103,000) in Albany. "There's simply a market out there for more distinctive beer." Some beer drinkers agree. Says Terry Czech, a roofer who lives in Schenectady, N.Y.: "I've gone several miles for a glass of Newman...
...short. For Kafka, all fantasy is rooted in the personal and the everyday: the miserable home, the suffocating office, the unconsummated affair and, below all, the stale gingerbread city of Prague. Here he was three times an outsider: a solitary, a Jew and a writer in German rather than Czech...