Word: carpathian
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...Czech farm hand (he was born Jan Ludwig Hoch), Maxwell left school at ten, left his family's one-room Carpathian mountain home at 16 to join the underground fighting Hitler. Later he made his way to Britain, joined the British army as a private, left as a captain. With the profits of some shrewd postwar trading in German scientific manuscripts, he bought Pergamon in 1951 for $36,400, cajoled experts from all over the world into writing scientific tomes for him. Fluent in nine languages including Russian, he won a virtual corner on rights to Soviet scientific works...
...North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh might turn into the Tito of Asian Communism. This is possible, but only if Red China changes its nationalist-expansionist direction. Tito's Yugoslavia is separated by 200 miles of Carpathian wilderness from Russia, while North Viet Nam has a common frontier with China. Moreover, the Chinese have traditionally pushed south. Ho, whose basic training and sympathies derive from the Soviet Union, is now 75; most of his rising lieutenants are pro-Peking. A Viet Nam united under Communist rule would, for the foreseeable future, remain a Peking satellite...
Tessie is a cockney peddler of fish 'n' chips who has been plopped into the show's continuity to provide flavorful exterior background to the otherwise indoor London setting of Terence Rattigan's story about an American girl and a Carpathian prince. With a big straw hat over her blonde hair, her clothing a rag sonata of browns and purples, her feet, encased in high button shoes, kicking up to show legs that would flatter a Tottenham Court soccer player, she belts out a medley of Noel Coward cockney songs-London Is a Little...
...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...