Word: andrei
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unknown. He wanted to pin Molotov down to a specific stand on each issue, or else make it plain to the world that the Russians had no intention of writing a peace treaty. As the translator rattled off Marshall's words, Molotov went into a huddle with Andrei Vishinsky, scurried through documents, snapped open briefcases. The sound of fluttering paper was sharp in the room...
...foes charge that he danced to the U.S. or any other fiddle. Against U.S. opposition, he had maneuvered the Ukraine into the Security Council and pushed through the Assembly a modified and generalized Soviet resolution against "warmongering." He kidded the Russians out of their delaying verbosity so skillfully that Andrei Gromyko reportedly admitted: "He is anti-Russian but he is also objective and impartial when presiding." The middle way-mediation between the extremes-is Aranha's hopeful course to world peace. He can point to one significant milestone so far: the partitioning of Palestine, which he describes...
...plaintiffs, Abraham Woll 1G, and Research Fellows in Medicine Dr. Charles S. Wise, Dr. Martin Perimutter, and Dr. Andrei de Vries claim that the Riverside Hotel not only assessed illegal rental overcharges in the past year, but also allegedly refused both to change daily rates to a cheaper monthly basis and to return sums of money deposited as security...
...Andrei Vishinsky, at his nastiest, never insulted us as did Mr. Ratner with the bland pronouncement that "radio's made in the image of the American people," whose intellectual horizons are bounded by "comic books, Betty Grable . . . broad comedy and simple drama...
...typical day at the Assembly. Beyond the dull-orange doors, guarded by U.N.'s own police in bluish-grey uniforms, sat the spectators (mostly matrons and students) in a subdued glow of public spirit. From the rostrum at the far end of the huge hall, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky faced them. A proposal had been made by Argentina to submit the veto question to the "Little Assembly" for examination. Vishinsky fulminated against it, exploded with similes: ". . . They are repeating day after day 'the veto must be destroyed'; like Cato of old; [like the] Trojan horse; [like...