Word: protectorates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They confiscated the estate of Baron George Daubek, central European representative of International Business Machines and husband of New York Metropolitan Opera Singer Jarmila Novotna; they announced that Daubek no longer had "an open protector" in the Czech cabinet. They did not say who the protector had been. The late Jan Masaryk had played piano accompaniments for Novotna on U.S. recordings of Czech folk songs...
Making his third address since returning from the Communist-dominated republic, Professor Matthiessen declared that the Communist party in Czechoslovakia could be treated "like any other party." The Czechs regard Russia as their ally and protector while they consider France "the real traitor," he added...
...week their schools were closed, for no pupils would attend. Bazaars and fairs shut down. Panicky villagers feared that 108 children would be kidnaped for sacrifice.* They picked 108 as the proper figure because that is sacred to Hindus. Rama, for instance, one of the incarnations of Vishnu, the Protector, offered his wife Sita 108 lotuses, each with 108 petals...
Rich Hindus sometimes seek to insure a happy reincarnation by endowing pinjarapoles-hostels for aging and infirm cows. But it seemed unlikely that Hindu India would outlaw cow slaughter. Mohandas Gandhi, a cow protector from way back, explained somewhat cattily: "India is a land not only of Hindus but of Moslems, Sikhs, Parsees, Christians and Jews. If cow slaughter can be prohibited in India on religious grounds, why can't Pakistan then prohibit [Hindu] idol worship in Pakistan on similar grounds...
...This war of religions is now seriously on. . . . The practical facts are that Communism offers a recipe for a good life in this world, and it is firing men's minds; that vast numbers of the workers believe the Church to be a reactionary protector of wealth and privilege. . . . There are some bold spirits who talk of a new positive crusade...