Word: czech
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harold Hothan "jeered and booed" when the Czech waiter flashed a Nixon-Agnew button [Aug. 24]. To that waiter, a slave in a slave state, that button was a sacred symbol of free elections, free speech, free trade, free minds and private property. It was a symbol, to him, of life worth living. When Harold jeered that button, he jeered not Nixon and Agnew but the nation and the concept of America. The waiter literally risked his life to show Harold that button, and all he did was jeer at it and at him. Harold Hothan sickens...
...them from printing. One of the most durable topics over the past few years has been the flamboyant personality and liberal accounting methods of Captain Robert Maxwell, 46, who built tiny Pergamon Press into a major scientific publishing house. Among financial editors there was a common conviction that the Czech-born publisher, who won a military cross while fighting with the British in World War II, was an expert in complex corporate maneuvers...
Several runners are followed from the moment they decide to compete in the marathon. Among them: an American (Ryan O'Neal) who concludes that Methedrine (also known as Speed) is the breakfast of champions; a retired Czech (Charles Aznavour) whose government compels him to give the West his back, just one more time; an aboriginal Australian (Athol Compton), goaded by two promoters; a Briton (Michael Crawford), protege of a former champion (Stanley Baker) who cannot forget the onliness of the long-distance runner. Among the coach's Segalese utterances: "We'll run through pain...
Lynn M. Riddiford, assistant professor of Biology, and a Czech scientist discovered that juvenile hormone must be absent from insect eggs for normal hatching to take place. This finding led to the possibility of releasing males with juvenile hormone on their genitalia. Every wild female that mates with one of these males would become sterile. If enough sterilizing males are let loose, the target insect's population would drop, but the hormone would effect no other species...
...Czech exhibit is the most original and aesthetically creative at the fair-a repeat of that country's triumph at the 1958 World Exhibition in Brussels. The pavilion is dominated by two spiraling pieces of modern glass sculpture. Among the imposing welded sculpture and cast-glass figures of the main pavilion, there is an immense iron bell, which visitors are invited to toll. In Expoland (the amusement area), the Czechs are showing an improved version of Laterna Magika, the combination of multi-projector movie wall and live acting that was the hit of Montreal's Expo...