Word: ference
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...musty cafe, I sat discussing the meeting with the three anti-Communist members of Parliament who were scheduled to speak that evening. One of them, tall, hawk-nosed Vince Nagy, former Minister of Interior in the Károlyi Government after World War I (no kin to exiled Premier Ferenc Nagy), said: "A few days ago when [Dezsö] Sulyok, head of our party, said in Parliament there was no freedom of speech in Hungary today, the Communists called him a liar...
...Jungfrau's peak gleamed in the distance; the River Aare rushed through Bern beneath the hotel window. The mild, wistful-eyed man who had tried to get along with everybody (including the Communists) had with him his timid little wife and his beautiful young daughter, Juliette. But Ferenc Nagy (pronounced Nodge) was uneasy: he was not enjoying his Swiss vacation from his duties as Premier of Hungary...
...splendor, Billy and Eleanor play house. "Billy has changed," says an admiring friend, "from a Lindy table-hopper to a sumptuous host." The Rose parties are small but as meticulously cast as a Broadway production. "Conversation," says Billy, "is the password." It admits such famed raconteurs as George Kaufman, Ferenc Molnar, Ludwig Bemelmans and Leopold Stokowski...
...Premier Ferenc Nagy and his fellow Cabinet members had paid their return trip from New York to London in Hungarian currency, it would have cost them 14,250,000,000,000,000 pengös apiece.*In Hungary's abysmal inflation- the worst in modern history-one U.S. dollar last week bought 38 trillion pengös. Bookkeepers used a new word: "Mil-pengö" (one million pengös), because their figures no longer fitted the ledgers...
...help a delegation of Hungarian Cabinet members has made the rounds of Washington, London and Paris. Head delegate was astute, affable, peasant-born Premier Ferenc Nagy, one of the founders of the middle-of-the-road Small Holders Party in 1930. Despite strong Russian pressure, the Small Holders had polled more than 60% of last year's election votes...