pocketbook
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pock·et·book
/ ˈpäkətˌboŏk/
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n.
1.
a woman's handbag.
∎
one's financial resources:
they provide packages for every taste and every pocketbook.
2. (pocket book)
a paperback or other small or cheap edition of a book.
3. Brit.
a notebook.
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Dubcek visit to include public rally in New Prague, Minnesota. (Alexander Dubcek)(includes schedule of events)
PR Newswire; 9/4/1990; 700+ words
; ...Sept. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Alexander Dubcek's two-day visit to Minnesota...4-6 follows.) VISIT OF ALEXANDER DUBCEK AND THE CZECHOSLOVAK DELEGATION...Federal Republic: -- Mr. Alexander Dubcek, president, Federal Assembly...
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ALEXANDER DUBCEK, CAUGHT IN THE PAST;The Reformer Left Behind by Czechoslovakia's Revolution
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/11/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...in the boxy communist style. Alexander Dubcek, the father of "socialism with...weeks later.) Then as now, Dubcek's high forehead and wide thin...disappointments of his 68 years. This is Alexander Dubcek's second Prague spring, the...
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Czech Leader Alexander Dubcek Dies
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/8/1992; ; 700+ words
; Alexander Dubcek, 70, the Czechoslovak Communist leader...invasion, died Nov. 7 in Prague. Mr. Dubcek, who suffered multiple injuries in a...the official state news agency CSTK. Dubcek was a beloved figure to many Czechs and...
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The Autumn of Alexander Dubcek
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/17/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...most of the last two decades, Alexander Dubcek was treated as a nonperson in his...his Bratislava house last week, Dubcek said he hoped to go to Italy next...leader Nelson Mandela. It would be Dubcek's first trip abroad since 1970...
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Hope Dies Last: The Autobiography of Alexander Dubcek.
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 8/11/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...visionary political leadership of Alexander Dubcek had ushered in the season of...has just become available: Alexander Dubcek's posthumously published memoirs...appearance of Vaclav Havel and Alexander Dubcek before the enormous throng in...
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Czechoslovakian parliament president to discuss trade agreements with Minnesota business leaders. (Alexander Dubcek)
PR Newswire; 8/21/1990; 700+ words
; ...Aug. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Alexander Dubcek, president of the Federal Assembly...announce establishment of an Alexander Dubcek Scholarship at the University...will officially present the Alexander Dubcek Scholarship program to Dubcek...
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Alexander Dubcek Dies; Led Czechs
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 11/8/1992; ; 607 words
; PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia Alexander Dubcek, 70, the former Czechoslovak leader...Prague Spring," died Saturday. Mr. Dubcek, who had been hospitalized with...cannot suppress an idea," Mr. Dubcek once said. He joined the Communist...
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Alexander Dubcek, father of 'Prague Spring,' to address luncheon gathering of business and public leaders. (NEWS ADVISORY)
PR Newswire; 8/31/1990; 700+ words
; ...STATE/ASSIGNMENT DESKS, AND POLITICS EDITOR: ALEXANDER DUBCEK, FATHER OF 'PRAGUE SPRING,' TO ADDRESS LUNCHEON GATHERING OF BUSINESS AND PUBLIC LEADERS Alexander Dubcek, the father of Czechoslovakia's "Prague Spring...
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Forever winter in Prague; twenty years after Dubcek's 1968 Spring, spirits are in cold storage. (Alexander Dubcek)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report; 8/8/1988; ; 700+ words
; Twenty years after Dubcek's 1968 Spring, spirits are in cold...monolithic power structure, Reformer Alexander Dubcek's Brezhnev-installed successor...The lackluster Jakes-who was once Dubcek's roommate during their student...
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Invasion by microphone (interview with Alexander Dubcek)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 4/29/1989; 700+ words
; ...television showed an interview with Mr Alexander Dubcek, the leader of the 1968 Prague Spring. Mr Dubcek was critical of the then party leaders...ahead and broadcast the second part of the Dubcek interview, as planned. This is galling...
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Dubček, Alexander
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Dubček, Alexander (1921–92) Czechoslovak statesman, Communist Party secretary (1968...federal parliament (1989–92). http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/alexander_dubcek.html
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Czechoslovakia, Relations with
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...removed Novotny and replaced him with Alexander Dubcek, who finally brought destalinization...By summer, Moscow worried that Dubcek had lost control. Moscow declared...troops invaded to restore order. Dubcek was summoned to Moscow but not...
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Vladimir Meciar
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...became a staunch supporter of the democratic reforms of Alexander Dubcek, the Communist Party's extremely popular reformist...rolled across Czechoslovakia's borders in 1968 and Dubcek was ousted. Death of Communism Meciar, too, was ousted...
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Czech Republic, Intelligence and Security
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security
...passed intelligence information to the KGB. The brief period of reform in the Czechoslovakian Communist Party under Alexander Dubcek (1921 – 1992), known as the Prague Spring, came to an abrupt end with the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact...
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Jöurgen Moltmann
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...in the air. Politically, there was John F. Kennedy's American "Camelot," and in Prague there was to appear Alexander Dubcek's "Socialism with a human face." Religiously, there was the aggiornamento of Pope John XXIII and the civil...
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