Word: josef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four pairs of socks. Kun's strong-arm methods and inflationary money found no favor with the peasants, who boycotted the markets. Meanwhile, Hungary's military and aristocracy were rallying to another banner, that of Admiral Nicholas Horthy, a former naval aide to the Emperor Franz Josef and a naval hero in World War I. Horthy organized a counterrevolution to oust Kun, and Kun was forced to flee to Vienna (he later turned up in Russia, where Stalin executed...
...himself has said that he is not yet ready to reveal all the details-especially concerning his trial in 1949. But this week the New York Herald Tribune is publishing a six-part record of the cardinal's experiences, as told to one of his closest confidants, Father Josef Vecsey, 43, who grew up as a neighbor of Mindszenty's. As soon as the cardinal was liberated by the Hungarian revolution. Vecsey rushed to his side, had long talks with him before being forced to flee the country...
...gloomy house in the Hungarian village of Felsopeteny, 45 miles northwest of Budapest, Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, free from prison these 15 months but not a free man, sat alone at dinner. People in the area knew the house as an atomic-research station of some mysterious sort: that was the explanation the Communists had given for the heavy armed guard that surrounded it. Mindszenty's guards paced about uneasily, and a Russian tank stood near by. Suddenly, out of the darkness a small band of young revolutionaries appeared, brandishing machine guns. Before their gun barrels, Mindszenty's guards...
...square where the life-size statue of General Josef Bern stands, honoring the Polish officer who fought for Hungary's freedom in 1848, 200,000 people crowded around a latter-day poet named Peter Veres, silent mover in the Hungarian Writers' Union. He stood at the foot of the statue and read out a manifesto demanding complete freedom of speech and press, a new Hungarian government, release of political prisoners, and the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hungary. The national flag - minus the Red star and hammer crossed by an ear-of-wheat emblem - was draped around...
...Radio Budapest announced that, because "their training has been interrupted," the Hungarian Olympic Team (which includes Sandor Iharos, holder of five world records at distances from 1,500 meters to 5,000) would not travel to the games. Reported killed in fighting against Soviet troops in Hungary: Josef Csermak, 1952 Olympic hammer-throwing champion; Major Ferenc Puskas, captain of Hungary's great postwar soccer team; Gabor Benedek, runner-up in the 1952 Olympic pentathlon championship...