Word: slav
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heading Huber's list of "most active Communist front organizations" were the International Workers Order and the American Slav Congress...
World of Margarac & Mestrovic. In Pennsylvania's steel country, men tell of Hungarian Joe Margarac, who could lift a locomotive with his finger, and his rival, the Slav Steve Mestrovic, who could twist 500-lb. bars of iron with his bare hands; they boiled their eggs in a Bessemer converter and combed their hair with traveling cranes. Margarac and Mestrovic belonged to legend, to Pittsburgh and to an industrial development that had its counterparts but never its equal anywhere in the world...
...hardy expert on the burning word, the President had not been daring at all, but unforgivably commonplace and unimaginative. In The American Language, H. L. Mencken complained: "Our maid-of-all-work in [the profanity] department is son-of-a-bitch, which seems as pale and ineffectual to a Slav or a Latin as fudge does to us. There is simply no lift in it, no shock, no sis-boom-ah . . . Put the second person pronoun and the adjective old in front of it and scarcely enough bounce is left in it to shake up an archdeacon. Worse...
...Cominform Communists in Trieste had split the Communist Party there in half and, with Moscow's blessing, launched a purge, of pro-Tito Slavs. Last week Communist and non-Communist Italians in Trieste went on an anti-Slav rampage, removing Slav names from streets, trams, crossroad signs...
...confused with Yiddish, which is Low German mixed with Hebrew and Slav words, written in Hebrew characters...