Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same Tyrolean ultra-conservatism that Napoleon failed to break brought them out to cheer Otto and Robert Habsburg who drove through the country a few months ago in a Mercedes with the royal crown on the radiator. An Allied directive from Vienna last month expelled the pair. Hotel Owner Franz Huber mourned: "I shall always keep my finest suite ready...
...Holland, considered this spring of 1946, decided that it was not a season for rejoicing; they abolished the annual spring carnival. At Berchtesgaden, a crocus was pushing up through the ruins of Adolf Hitler's villa. Also pushing their way to light were weeds of old hatred; in Vienna, where a Jewish soccer team played a Gentile eleven, crowds suddenly rioted and yelled: "Into the gas with them! Into the gas!" Further south, along the thawing Danube, in Budapest, gypsies who had survived the Nazi purges again fiddled in the cafes (one of their songs: "Give my regards...
Instead she won an International Chopin Prize in 1932, the Beethoven Prize of Vienna in 1933. She was in bombed-out Warsaw when it fell. The Gestapo agent who found her in the city's ruins tried to persuade her to go to Berlin to play for the Nazis. She refused and was sent to jail...
...Russians abroad could at least be asked for comment. A Stars and Stripes reporter in Vienna polled 33 Red Army men on Churchill's speech and got these results...
...None of Vienna's eight cautious dailies mentioned the life-&-death news of food and fuel. Instead, they growled over old bones, squabbling about who was to blame for Anschluss (the German seizure of the country) eight years...