Word: slices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three Medals. At Cortina last winter, Toni cut a noticeable slice out of Russia's spectacular march down the ski trails. Standing just a little straighter than his rivals, demonstrating a spectacular sense of balance and feel for the snow, he won a gold medal in all three Alpine events (giant slalom, slalom and downhill). He is expected to win this season's big downhill honors in Europe and plans to come to the U.S. this month to race at Aspen, Colo, and Stowe...
...workers who by law could not be laid off. Carlo Faina, who headed Catini's Rome office, started out to rebuild the company. A cheery aristocrat who differs from Donegani in every respect except drive, he is the scion of a line that once ruled a large slice of Italy (said a medieval couplet: "From Roma to Perugia, it's all Faina"). After World War I. in which he got three decorations and was seriously wounded, he was hired through an ad by Donegani as his assistant...
Fighting on the wrong side in World War I, Hungary emerged from the peace shorn of most of its ancient conquests. The new states of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia were created out of what had once been St. Stephen's realm. Rumania got a large slice, and the Hungarian nation was reduced to a puny third of the Carpathian basin where Arpad had made his home a millennium earlier. Its predominantly Magyar population of 8,354,400 was 75% Roman Catholic, 20% Calvinist, and the balance Greek Orthodox, Uniate, Lutheran and Jewish. In 1919, amid the anarchy of defeat...
...with the Red army in control of Hungary, bulletheaded Communist Party Boss Matyas Rakosi, a onetime Kun lieutenant, set out to grab power. Using what he called salami tactics-a slice at a time-Rakosi cut off his opponents. Kovacs was sent to Siberia (where, after nearly nine years, he was released a few months ago). In 1947, with his four-year-old son held hostage, the Smallholders' Premier Ferenc Nagy, the last hope of a free Hungary, was forced to resign and flee into exile...
...body around stabilized feet and therewith dance a jig, plant a fist in a face, throw an opponent in wrestling or hurl a projectile with accuracy." Prometheus was capable of doing all these things, and his dexterity enabled him to fashion crude stone tools with a cutting edge to slice up his victims after he killed them. Strangely, he often seemed to prefer to cut off the heads of animals or fellow man-apes, leaving the bodies to rot in the veld. This may have been because he had a taste for brains (he frequently bored a small hole...