Word: czechoslovak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...counter skepticism, the U.S. State Department stepped in to confirm "a nefarious plot," and U.S. Army Headquarters in Heidelberg reported that its counter-intelligence agents had discovered the guilty Communist, one Jaroslav Nemec, who works in the Czechoslovak consulate at Salzburg, Austria...
Nobel Prize for chemistry went to Professor Jaroslav Heyrovsky, 68, of Charles University, Prague, the first Czechoslovak to win a Nobel Prize. The award came as much-belated recognition for his discovery of polarography, a delicate electrical method of chemical analysis. It works by measuring the properties of ions, and can detect slight traces of metals in a drop or two of a complex solution. Discovered in 1925, polarography is still used all over the world by analytical chemists...
...what shape the conference table should be. Russia wanted a round one; the West held out for a square table, whose four-sidedness, reasoned Western tacticians, would emphasize that the talks concerned the four occupiers of Berlin. The Westerners had anticipated a Soviet demand for inclusion of Polish and Czechoslovak delegations, to "even up sides...
...Bubbling Pot. To confirm this thesis, Russia's Czechoslovak stooges all last week were ominously baying that Imre Nagy (rhymes with dodge) had spent the last days of the Hungarian revolt "plotting in the Yugoslav embassy" in Budapest. But the fact seemed to be that Tito, like Nagy and Maleter, was not the real focus of Russian wrath but merely the symbol of a problem that has bedeviled the Soviets ever since the death of Stalin...
...Austrian Cabinet met in a special session, peremptorily expelled Teleki and Kertesz as personae non gratae. For the Austrian security police it was the second breakup of a Communist spy ring since last year, when they similarly put out of business an espionage network set up by the Czechoslovak legation...