Word: tatrallyay
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...Geza Tatrallyay this year led Harvard's fencing team to its highest finish ever in the Ivy League. With Tatrallyay as captain, the team finished the season in a three-way tie for second place...
...Tatrallyay's All-Ivy performance was remarkable for an athlete who has been plagued throughout his career by torn cartilages and weak ankles. Excellent fencing, however, is not his only accomplishment. Next year Tatrallyay will study anthropology at Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship...
...Tatrallyay was born in Hungary in 1949. Under the communist regime life was difficult for his family. "We were just being constantly hassled by the government. They told my father that if he didn't cooperate with the government, his children wouldn't get past the eighth grade," he said...
...family tried to flee the country three times. On the first try, the leader of the fleeing group of families turned out to be a police agent, who led the group into a trap. Several people were shot, and Tatrallyay's family was captured by the Hungarian secret police...
...police then took the family back to their headquarters. "I can remember sitting on a stool," Tatrallyay said. "Big ugly guys were questioning us. I cried the whole time. My father was beaten." The police warned the family that if they tried to escape again, they would all be killed...