Word: czeched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't for that damn Czech class you signed up for on Tuesday afternoon, you might have been privy to the winter beach in Sever Quad. How free it would have felt to don a houndstooth check bikini in winter and beg disgusted onlookers to rub sun tan lotion on your back. Oh, to be scum in Harvard Yard on a Tuesday afternoon...
Sadly, the ancient hatred of Gypsies for their supposed deviousness has revived since communism collapsed in Eastern Europe. In Romania and the Czech Republic, mobs have burned Gypsies' homes and beaten their occupants, sometimes to death. Police and legal authorities have generally condoned these atrocities. In desperation, thousands of East European Gypsies--500,000 in 1991 alone--have applied for asylum in the West. Rather than accept repatriation after a 1992 pact between Germany and Romania, Romanian Gypsies in German relocation camps destroyed their identity cards. They were deported anyway...
...left of France's new conservative President Jacques Chirac. A pair of paleocommunist and postcommunist leaders could be found in the third row from the front, where Fidel Castro (fifth from right), in a business suit rather than his customary fatigues, loomed over Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic to his right. In the fifth row, Yasser Arafat (just below the "50" banner) was placed near Yitzhak Rabin of Israel--Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, on Arafat's left, separated them. To Rabin's right was Tomiichi Murayama, the Prime Minister of Japan. Nelson Mandela (second row, second from left) wore...
...folks over at the newsgroup alt.drunken.bastards were still at it, arguing which beer deserves to be crowned the world's worst. Alex Falls weighed in his vote for Staropramen, a Czech brew. "It took me a week to drink three, and the rest went to charity...
...Succeed in Tennis Without Really Trying. Until the match with Graf, she never lost a set, as her two-handed backhands and forehands kept the other women cornered. The only time she did not look particularly sharp was in the first set of her quarterfinal match with talented Czech Jana Novotna, but Seles erased two set points with a laser return of service and a dazzling forehand volley. "Well, I was just so mad at myself," she said of the first shot, "I just, wow, hit it." Reminded of the second shot, she said, "Very nice. Very good point. That...