Word: czechoslovakia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bush, citizens still get weepy with nostalgia when they recall Mr. Bush's appreciation of Czechoslovakia's President Vaclav Havel as "living, or dying, whatever, for freedom." Assessing the volatility of the 1988 presidential election, Bush predicted, "The undecideds could vote one way or the other...
...Soviet-bloc musicals that were much more in step with Hollywood films. In three 1965 movies you'll see a dapper gent figure-skating around a woman in her bedroom (the Czech-East German The Wayward Wife), a DayGlo-bright production number in a spa (Woman on the Rails, Czechoslovakia), a Bulgarian Connie Francis in full taunt (The Antique Coin). But the syncopated clock was ticking; Commusicals fizzled out, as Hollywood song shows did, in the early...
...Indianapolis, Ind. Werner sketched for the Indianapolis Star for 47 years, but his winning image was done for the Oklahoman. Drawn shortly after the Sudetenland was handed over to Hitler in 1938, it proved sadly prophetic: a scroll marked NOBEL PEACE PRIZE lies beside a gravestone bearing the epitaph CZECHOSLOVAKIA...
Then, my father's boss, Jan Masaryk--foreign minister of what was then Czechoslovakia--was told by Stalin in Moscow that his country must not participate in the Marshall Plan, despite its national interest in doing so. Upon his return to Prague, Masaryk said it was at that moment, he understood he was employed by a government no longer sovereign in its own land...
Following the war, Albright returned with her family to Czechoslovakia. Her father resumed his career in the diplomatic corps and was a rising star until the communists took over in 1948. Again her family fled, this time seeking asylum in the United States, where her father became a professor at the University of Denver...