Word: josef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Captain Josef Klesnil, pilot of the plane from Brno, had flown 17 minutes on his northeasterly course when copilot and radioman pulled pistols on him. They ordered him to turn southwest. "Don't joke," said Klesnil. "If you go against our wishes," said the mutineers, "we'll blow your brains out." For more than an hour, with pistols at his head, the captain flew southwest, beyond the Czech border to Munich, in the U.S. zone of Germany...
...driving such fine artists as Grosz, Josef Albers, Paul Klee and Max Beckmann from the country, by persecuting the few moderns who remained, and by turning their students into soldiers, Hitler had crushed Germany's art tradition. Still cut off from the art of other nations, her new painters were going modern in the dark, groping and hoping for success...
...first miracle, villagers told reporters, took place on Sunday, Dec. 11. During his sermon, the village priest, Father Josef Toufar, had said: "He Who is in our tabernacle and Who is among us, He will help us . . ." At that moment, the lindenwood crucifix leaned first to the left, then to the right, and then to the west. Cihost's pious peasants said the crucifix went through the same motion on Christmas day and on Sunday...
Last year's two $50 first prizes went to Nicholas Verden '51 and J. David Baumann '51. The former recited the Allocution by Pope Pius XII on the arrest of Cardinal Josef Mindszenty, and the latter chose Ulysses' speech on order from Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida...