Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five in a Row. Buckshot's detailed, homely communications to "Ed," which he started nine years ago, now appear regularly in seven Texas newspapers (including one in Czech) and occasionally in the Houston Post and the Houston Press. Sometimes as hard-boiled as Hammett, sometimes as folksy as Uncle Remus, the columns not only have earned him a journalistic reputation but have helped get him elected sheriff for five straight terms...
...transition to socialism, the top U.S. Communist leaders (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) told the jury, it is always the middle class that uses force. But the Czech Communists were showing the world how the transition to socialism is really carried...
...young Czech political refugee has just sent us a letter telling of the continuing hunger for uncensored information behind the Iron Curtain. It reports how a small courageous group of Czechs still manages to get news from the outside world, despite the ban which was imposed on TIME, LIFE and 25 other foreign publications 18 months ago at the time of the Communist coup...
Czechoslovakia has called upon its National Union of Students for voluntary work-brigades since April, 1948--two months after the Communists came into power. Czech universities reward work brigade members with "special concessions on examinations for participants," and students in coal-mining brigades receive special make-up courses...
...Czech and Rumanian working brigades have traveled to assignments in Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, although it is doubtful whether groups are still being dispatched to Yugoslavia, in view of the strained relations between that country and other Eastern European nations...