Word: dvornik
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...purge of the Jews in the early years of World War II. A Jewish family is arrested, except for a 17-year-old girl, Ruth (Dusica Zegarac). Loyal Christian friends hide her and, to give her legal status, arrange a marriage with their 19-year-old son Ivo (Boris Dvornik). It is not hard to guess what happens next, or what happens inevitably in the end. Ivo agrees to the marriage out of thoughtless humanity, hurts her cruelly, then begins to fall in love...
...members of the Dumbarton Oaks faculty will teach at the College next semester a fine arts course will be given by the Byzantine expert Father Francis Dvornik, professor of Byzantine History, who recently came to the U.S. after fleeing the Communist government in Czechoslovakia; and Granville Downey, associate professor of Byzantine Literature, will teach the "Eastern Roman Empire to Justinan...
...cannot meet for debate, nor even for social purposes, for that is contrary to the military principles of the Czar. But a short time ago a few of us younger students organized a literary club. At not later than the second meeting the dreaded blue uniform of a "dvornik," police-spy, appeared at the door. It is needless to say the club was disbanded and one or two of our members expelled from the University. Think of that, free students of the West! Do you wonder that the Government is unpopular at the Russian Universities? Do you wonder that...
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