Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scraped Danubian plain blazed like brass: Hungary, one of the bounteous nations of Europe, would this year require six million quintals of wheat. Allied authorities started a vast woodcutting campaign in the Vienna woods, to supplement the capital's inadequate coal stocks...
...would be a bitter winter, and many people would die. Yet in disfigured Vienna and the eight other Bundesländer of Austria, men found cause for hope...
...Russians favor Vienna or Prague, which almost no one else wants. They have uncomfortable memories of Geneva, where Maxim Litvinoff once pleaded in vain for total disarmament and where the Soviet Union was bounced out of the League in 1939. But since these are hardly logical objections as of 1945, the Russians have indicated that they might just possibly consider Geneva, after...
...happens to be from Missouri too. Tall, handsome Colonel Wallace H. Graham, 34, who went to the University of Missouri, where he was a boxer and track star, got his medical degree at Creighton University in Omaha, and studied surgery at Harvard, Chicago, Budapest, Szeged (Hungary) and Vienna. He went into practice in Kansas City with his father, Dr. J. W. Graham, who is a friend of Harry Truman's. On the side, young Dr. Graham continued surgical research. He joined the Army in 1941, was wounded soon after the Normandy invasion and was invalided home...
...does Mr. Strauss Goes to Boston perk up as a period piece; the festal splendors of the Jubilee, the starched manners of Boston, the suave elegances of Vienna get barely a nod; even the sets and costumes lack lure. The Waltz King's own music has been reduced to a minimum and revamped to no good end. Most of the tunes in Mr. Strauss are by Robert (Zwei Herzen im Drei-Viertel Takt) Stolz, and the best of them are not more than agreeable...