Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like the "veal" on another menu, the "Hungarian goulash" around the corner, the prime roasts and shepherd's pies at still other restaurants, the lady's pate had been, a few days earlier, a long-legged foal romping after a chestnut mother not long retired from a dairy cart. Last week it was still illegal in Britain to kill horses under seven years old for food or serve it in restaurants if other meat was available...
...state primary school in Communist Budapest, a Hungarian teacher asked ten-year-old Istvan to compose a sentence containing a dependent clause. "Our cat had ten kittens," said Istvan, "of which all were Communists." "Excellent," said the teacher. "Exactly right. Be sure you do as well next week when the government supervisors come." The following week she asked the prize student the same question. "Our cat," said Istvan, "had ten kittens, of which all were Social Democrats." "Why, Istvan," cried the teacher, "that's absurd. That's not what you said last week. Last week your kittens were...
Next day the Ferencvaros team was suspended for four weeks, its stadium closed. The official announcement spoke of "enemies of Hungarian democracy who attack our constitution through sports." Even though Budapesters boycotted all soccer games, Ferencvaros knuckled under. The team "applied to Comrade Rakosi for assistance," asked "the democratic camp of the [soccer] association to eliminate the reactionaries...
...Toilers Are Told. Fortnight ago, Rakosi made a major speech before his Communist Party. Hungarian peasants cocked an ear; since the war they had divided up the large farms among themselves (with the blessings of the Communists) and were well pleased. Rakosi's speech jolted them. He deplored the fact that Hungarian agriculture today is "based on the split-up little peasant holdings." He even used the dreaded word "kolkhoz" -collective farm. The peasant press gingerly expressed anxiety...
...admiral's story was also due for a clapperclawing. Burrowing in the archives of the Hungarian Academy of Science, Historian Tivadar Acs announced, he had found 130 documents which "reveal that Christopher Columbus was a pirate in the French service...