Word: carpathian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hope that Hitler's secret weapons will somehow turn defeat into magical victory. Czech partisans are rampant behind the German lines, settling old scores with pro-German civilians, cutting off groups of soldiers, even capturing the division commander who is trying to stem the Russian surge through the Carpathian passes...
Sculptor Chaim Gross's father was a lumber merchant, and Chaim began his career, appropriately enough, as a sculptor of wood. Among the first sights Sculptor Gross saw in his native Carpathian Mountains were towering forests of firs and pines; among the first sounds he heard were the bite of ax in tree and the screech of sawmills slicing logs into boards. "Smelling the odor of a pine or some other tree," he says today, "I feel like pressing close to its fragrance...
...only to the Finns and Estonians. Latecomers to Central Europe, fierce fighters and skillful horsemen, they were driven southward over the centuries from their early home on the slopes of Siberia's Ural Mountains, and in 895, under the leadership of their tribal chief Arpad, crossed over the Carpathian Mountains into the great plain that is now Hungary...
...Hungary emerged from the peace shorn of most of its ancient conquests. The new states of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia were created out of what had once been St. Stephen's realm. Rumania got a large slice, and the Hungarian nation was reduced to a puny third of the Carpathian basin where Arpad had made his home a millennium earlier. Its predominantly Magyar population of 8,354,400 was 75% Roman Catholic, 20% Calvinist, and the balance Greek Orthodox, Uniate, Lutheran and Jewish. In 1919, amid the anarchy of defeat and humiliation, a disciple of Lenin named Bela Kun, freed...
...Faith. Two nights before Mindszenty's dramatic release by the Hungarian rebels, another Iron Curtain prelate was freed: Poland's Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski. Prodded by fervent demands for his release from all over Poland, the Gomulka regime sent emissaries to Wyszynski's monastery exile in the Carpathian Mountains to bring him back. Last week the cardinal was driven by a government sedan through a cold rain to the grey stone archbishop's palace in Warsaw. Next day, after meeting with clergy from all over Poland, he went out before the waiting crowds. They cheered, wept, sang...