Word: accost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accepts as part of the job the autograph seekers who accost him in hotel lobbies and restaurants. He doesn't mind the kids so much, he says-it's the adults: "They always wait till you are about to put the steak in your mouth...
...Kollontay had temporarily broken with the party and led the Workers Opposition Movement; now she gave what looked like a coy explanation of why she took so long to be converted to Stalinism: "Stalin . . . always seemed engrossed in his thoughts, so that when we met him, we hesitated to accost him for fear of interrupting his chain of thought...