Word: slovenian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when the boatloads of newcomers reached their peak, some 1,300 foreign- language newspapers and magazines were being published in the U.S. New York City alone boasted a cacophony of 32 dailies, including ten in German, five in Yiddish, two in Bohemian and one each in Croatian, Slovakian and Slovenian...
...found who does not expect him to win a gold medal. That would be nice, in the local view, but if Krizaj succeeds, he will not get a hotel of his own, as Austrian ski heroes do. This is Bosnia, after all, and Krizaj is a miserable Slovenian...
...come slowly, but not before a remarkable final display of Tito's legendary physical resistance. Stricken with a dangerous blockage in his circulatory system, Tito was admitted on Jan. 12 to a clinic in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana. Within eight days, he underwent two high-risk operations: an arterial bypass to circumvent his circulation blockages, and then, after that had failed and gangrene set in, the amputation of his left leg. Tito at first appeared to make a strong recovery from these operations, which he had been given only a fifty-fifty chance of surviving. In February, however...
...staring anxiously up at the windows of the modern, nine-story clinic. Others gathered in groups during the lunch hour to exchange murmured bits of gossip that might supplement the meager medical bulletins. Each day last week, small crowds huddled in front of the medical center in Ljubljana, the Slovenian capital, where Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito continued to wage a formidable but apparently hopeless struggle for his life...