Word: czechoslovakians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quite understood how Kramer got the blister so late in the season. By using a special glove, the rangy No. 1 hope of U.S. amateur tennis* whizzed through the first three rounds. His big serve was working fine. In the fourth round, he met thickset, bespectacled Jaroslav Drobny, a Czechoslovakian left-hander who also had a big serve. They slammed it out, Kramer aggressively, Drobny methodically. The second set went to an exhausting 17-15 and Kramer developed new blisters, discarded his glove. He winced on each drive to Drobny's vulnerable spot, the backhand. In the end, Kramer...
Five years ago Nazis purged Amsterdam's world-famed Concertgebouw Orchestra of 18 Jewish members, packed them off to a Czechoslovakian concentration camp. Last week 15 of the 18 Jewish musicians were back in their chairs for the symphony's first concert since the liberation...
...tanks of Marshals Fedor I. Tolbukhin and Rodion Y. Malinovsky knifed nearer Vienna, the old Habsburg capital where the Nazi Führer first paraded as a conqueror. They reached Wiener-Neustadt, bomb-battered center through which supplies flow to Germans in Yugoslavia and Italy. The great Austrian and Czechoslovakian industries, which at the end of 1944 were supplying some 60% of German war production, were threatened...
...Silesia stocky Marshal Ivan S. Konev's First Ukrainian Army group hammered southward from its Oder bridgehead. Konev's troops neared the gateway to the Ziegenhals Pass, and the Czechoslovakian city of Moravska Ostrava, guarding the Moravian...
...knew better than Berliners that Berlin would need all this and more. The Red Army's Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov, though striking hard, had yet to launch his hardest blows. South of Berlin, Marshal Ivan S. Konev's forces smashed from Oder bases toward the Czechoslovakian border. North of Berlin, Zhukov drove for the old Baltic port of Stettin, tried to tear loose this anchor of the Oder River line...