Word: hungarian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria ruled the Austro-Hungarian Empire for 68 years, succumbing at last at age 86, two years after the start of World War I. When Franz Joseph succeeded to its command, the Habsburg holdings included Milan and Venice, Prague and Cracow, as well as Vienna and Budapest. Within two years of his death, the empire had been reduced to the small country, centered on Vienna, that it essentially is today. The Eagles Die is the story of that Habsburg sunset, and of the golden light that Viennese culture shed in the waning days of empire...
...years until independence came in 1947. His intimate friendship with Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, led to a series of high-level government posts. At the U.N. in the 1950s, Menon regularly scourged U.S. "imperialism," although he condoned Moscow's suppression of the 1956 Hungarian uprising. As Defense Minister Menon's failure to prepare for the 1962 Chinese assault on India's fragile defenses along the Himalayan border led to Nehru's greatest governmental crisis-and to Menon's own political demise...
Died. Lili Darvas, 72, celebrated Hungarian-American actress; after a brief illness; in Manhattan. Four years after her 1921 stage debut in Budapest, Darvas was discovered by Max Reinhardt, then Europe's foremost director...
...toured the Continent with Reinhardt's troupe, then, in 1938, fled from the Nazis to New York with her husband, Hungarian Playwright Ferenc Molnar. After shining in such Broadway productions as Bravo (1948) and First Love (1961), Darvas won acclaim for her poignant portrayal of a 96-year-old invalid in the Hungarian film Love...
...runs an empire within an empire. Frankel began his Times career as a stringer, joined the paper full-time after graduating from Columbia University in 1952. Born in Germany, Frankel fled the Nazis with his family in 1938; 18 years later he returned to Europe to cover the Hungarian revolt and serve as Moscow correspondent. In Washington, Frankel established himself as one of America's top diplomatic reporters, winning the influential job of Times bureau chief there in 1968. Frankel picked up a Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for his dispatches from China, the same year he took over...