Word: hus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...country's wartime underground; Dr. Hendrick Kraemer was a member of the Dutch resistance movement; Germany's Bishop Otto Dibelius, who fought the Nazis for ten years, is now fighting the Communists in the Eastern part of his diocese; Dr. Joseph L. Hromadka of the Jan Hus Faculty of Theology in Prague, the only delegate from behind the Iron Curtain, is now walking an East-West tightrope...
...morning last week, at Prague's Charles University, the statue of the great 15th Century Rector Jan Hus was found throttled by a cloth gag. The gag was a serious gesture. Charles University was 600 years old, and to those who knew its history and traditions, the birthday celebrations staged by Czechoslovakia's new Communist rulers seemed a desecration...
...Hus?" New jargon was springing up everywhere. In San Francisco the word "boodles" was used both as a noun and a verb-and could mean anything under the sun. In Charleston, S. C., where dyeing the forelock was all the rage, kids greeted each other by crying, "Wi ya hus...
...Army Game. In Alliance, Neb., four girls were married to four Army Air Forces paratroopers by a paratrooper chaplain, heard nothing further from hus bands or chaplain, found that they were without benefit of marriage licenses...
Natives helped him. One supplied him with rice and other food in his hideaways. He had a small lens which he used as a sunglass to light fires. He learned to squeeze the oil of coconuts and use it for cooking fuel. He shaved once a week, hus banding a scanty supply of razor blades. After a while "they almost pulled my face...