Word: czechoslovakian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Urged by photographers to pose with an English child in Hampton Court, Malenkov, with hundreds of children to pick from, unhappily seized on six-year-old Thomas Klouda and his brother Peter, aged three, and plunked them on his knees. The boys happened to be the sons of former Czechoslovakian Consul-General Antonin Klouda, who fled Prague after the Communist coup. "Frankly, my first thought," said father Klouda, "was how easy it would be to assassinate...
...only ten years.* It is regarded by the U.S. State Department as the Arab nation most dangerously infiltrated by Communists. Czechoslovaks have already let Syria have 50 German tanks at the giveaway price of $8,000 apiece. Last week Cairo's radio reported that a shipment of Czechoslovakian arms, presumably including the tanks, reached a Syrian port...
Former Crimson star Bill Cleary will center the second line of the United States Olympic Hockey Team today against a strong Czechoslovakian five, as the 1956 Winter Olympic competition begins at Cortina O'Ampezzo, Italy...
...Olympic Runner Emil Zatopek, 34-year-old officer in the Czechoslovakian Army who holds every distance-running record from six miles to 30,000 meters, wiped out a threat to his supremacy. In Russia last month Soviet Runner Albert Ivanov claimed to have cut more than a minute off Zatopek's record time (1 hr. 19 min. 11.8 sec.) for the 25,000 meters. In a race near Prague last week, Zatopek covered the distance in 1 hr. 16 min. 34.6 sec., slicing nearly a minute off Ivanov's unofficial time...
...vodka-splashed party in Moscow's Czechoslovakian embassy, the U.S.S.R.'s Communist Party Secretary Nikita S. Khrushchev was asked by a U.S. newsman whether he is the real boss of the Kremlin. On the inside track, Khrushchev grinned, then politely suggested: "Let's have a drink-and ask me another time...