Word: czecho
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...Saluted continued Czecho-Slovak defiance of the Nazis in a cable to exiled President Eduard Benes (in London) on the 24th anniversary of Czech independence...
Francisco ("Pancho") Segura from Ecuador turned up in U.S. tennis two years ago as a two-handed freak. By mid-1942 he looked more like a two-handed champion. Every tennis player in the country whistled last July when Segura batted his way through the strong Czecho-Slovakian, Ladislav Hecht. 6-0, 6-0, 6-0. An urchin-like figure with a pigeon-toed slouch and a dark Indian face, Segura addresses a forehand shot as if he were about to kill it with an ax, often whirls so far off the ground that he seems to be swung...
...crooning cowboys of Wyoming, Montana, etc., should constitute the Czecho-polska State of North America with San Diego, which will be renamed Memel, as their only outlet...
...farmers of the sunny, floral little Mexican village of San Jeronimo, half an hour from Mexico City, have recently thought much of unhappier places. This week, following the lead of an Illinois town (TIME, July 20), they changed the name of San Jeronimo to Lidice, after the martyred Czecho-Slovak village...
...France, Czecho-Slovakia, Italy or Japan were populated by Americans with their genius for "wildcatting," the oil output of those countries would, making an allowance for differences in area, equal that of the U.S. today...