Word: slovaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Jakobson, who will teach in the field of Slavic philology and advanced literature, holds degrees from the Universities of Moscow and Prague. He is the author of over 200 books and articles on Russian, Czech and Slovak language, literature, and folklore...
When the Nazis invaded Yugoslavia, Father George was a Croatian organizer of Catholic youth groups. He promptly took off his clerical garb, went underground, and with many other young Christians, eventually joined Slovak partisans. Fighting side by side with Russians, they kept their religion under cover-celebrating Mass, and even holding retreats, in forests with lookouts posted...
...just the place for a conspiracy, because the Slovakian democratic Party was the biggest singly stumbling block to absolute Communist power in Czechoslovakia. But last week they came to with a jerk. Ferjencik named as the bomb plot's' ringleaders the two general secretaries of the Slovak Democratic Party. They were Jan Kempny and Milos Bugar-both Catholics, both members of the Czechoslovak Parliament. All at once it was terribly clear that, if these two were disposed of, the Slovak Democratic Party would be so demoralized that it would cease to be a force in Czechoslovakian politics...
...school holidays he weighed beef in the packing houses. In 1924, after he had been a priest for six years, he was sent to St. Michael's in the Back of the Yards district as assistant pastor. Since the pastor of St. Michael's must be a Slovak, Father Ambrose never...
...colorful life whose flamboyant tones were muted only slightly by the black robes of the Roman Catholic priesthood, fat, bullet-headed Josef Tiso had successively sold out the Slovaks to the Austrians and Hungarians, and then helped sell out the Czechoslovak Republic to the Nazis. In 1939, he became the first puppet President of a subjugated nation. To the court opening his trial for treason, Tiso explained that he held the puppet presidency of Slovakia only to safeguard Slovak interests. This didn't much impress Slovaks with long memories, nor did it impress the Vatican, which has said...