Word: graz
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When the war ended in 1945 and Yugoslavia was left to Tito, Bajuk escaped to Austria and joined a small technical school in Graz, under the British military government. In his second year at the school Bajuk sent an application to Harvard...
With Bajuk at Graz was 19-year-old Robert Grasselli '51, also from a small town in Slovinia, Yugoslavia, Grasselli was too young to be actively engaged in the war, but his parents were in business and, when the communist regime was established in 1945, all business went to the state...
...family went to Graz, where Grasselli studied Chemical Engineering in the school where Bajuk was a physics major...
Swinging through Europe, on a hangman's holiday, which will take him to Vienna, Graz, northern Italy and (reportedly) to Nürnberg in time to officiate should Nazi leaders be hanged: Albert ("Yungg Alber"*) Pierrepoint, Britain's Senior Hangman. In Vienna, Pierrepoint will hang eight murderers and rapists, a refresher course for Austrian hangmen (conservative Austrian methods cause hanged men to struggle 20 minutes before dying; the progressive Pierrepoint system kills them almost at once). After his European tour, Hangman Pierrepoint plans to retire and to devote himself to his recently acquired Lancashire pub (name: "Help...
...persuasive Austrian accents, came suggestions to saboteurs: wreck your railways and destroy your roads; Hitler needs them to maintain his fronts in Italy and Yugoslavia, to get his food from Hungary and his oil from Rumania. Almost at once there were reports of breaks in the line from Graz to Klagenfurt in the southeast...