Word: vo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stockholm's Central Station the Czech ice hockey team lined up to take the southbound train. The players had just won the world's championship and they were in an alcoholic mood. Happiest of all was hefty, beaming Manager Antonin Vo-dicka. "Everybody here?" he asked. "We could not find Marek," glowered the thinlipped man whom Prague had sent along to act as the team's Communist chaperon. But Vodicka was unconcerned. "Maybe he's in the train," he hiccoughed and stumbled in himself...
...establish "harmony" with Russia). His purge of the press provoked the first open resistance the new regime had encountered. The government announced that all Socialist publications would be closed down this month when the Social Democratic Party "merges" with the Communist Party. At the plant of venerable Právo Lidu (People's Right), 55-year-old Social Democratic Party organ, 500 newspaper workers assembled in a protest rally. Shouts of "Strike!" went up. Social Democratic Deputy Premier Zdenek Fierlinger, who hurried to the Právo Lidu plant to try to smooth things out, was received bitterly. Said...
...know, of course, that the sale of TIME is forbidden now in Prague. So I was amazed to see on a newsstand in front of the offices of Rudé Právo a copy of TIME displayed, not prominently, but easily seen. It was the issue of December 29 with a picture of the Virgin and Child on the cover. When I asked the old woman in charge of the stand what sort of magazine it was, she winked at me and said it was an 'art' magazine. I asked if I might...
...Vo have built up the Vietnamese army to about 100,000, outnumbering the French local force of 80,000. Viet Nam got some mortars and French 755 from the Japs, and has been manufacturing its own small arms. The Vietnamese have been trained by cooperative Japanese officers...
Last fortnight Ho and Vo sent conciliatory letters to several French officials, suggesting a renewal of negotiations. But while General Louis Morlière, the commander at Hanoi, was reading his letter, a bomb disabled the power plant. Simultaneously the French hospital was attacked, not only by Vietnamese from outside but by helpful comrades who had smuggled themselves in as patients. Said Ho: "The battle will be long and difficult...