Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unannounced, he showed up a few nights later to catch the American Holiday on Ice show at the Lenin Sports Palace with his son Sergei, as well as First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan and cronies from the Central Committee. Afterward, in a private room at the back of the hall, Khrushchev gave a caviar-and-smoked-salmon party for the cast, scattering bear hugs and backslaps among hearty toasts in brandy. There was no talk of politics...
Intimidated by the Russian hoods and not sure whether, because of his diplomatic status, they could do something to help him, the nurses did nothing. Finally, exhausted, Stryguine turned to the nurses with pleading eyes and said, "I have a 14-year-old daughter back in Russia...
Burmese guards understood no English, and let the Russian goons overpower him. The Russians carried him back to his hospital bed, had him shot full of dope, and then, despite hospital protests, insisted on removing him to the Soviet embassy...
There was blunt talk nonetheless. The Ambala Tribune warned that "by killing Tibetan autonomy, the Chinese have advanced their gun posts to India's northeast frontier," and have brought India's great cities within the range of Tibet-based bombers. An influential Indian geographer, Dr. S. Chandrasekhar, back from a trip to Red China, wrote in the Illustrated Weekly of India: "It will be a sad day for Asia if, after a struggle for two centuries, she overthrows European imperialism only to become victim of another and more sinister imperialism." And in Parliament's first chance...
Getting off the jammed main routes is no help, for the idea has occurred to everybody else too. The narrow back streets of cities are further narrowed by parked cars and blocked by garbage trucks and moving vans. In big cities the blitz was a traffic blessing, for bombed-out areas made excellent parking lots. But office blocks are going up on the bomb sites -bringing more cars into the center of town and simultaneously eliminating places for them to park. Creeping toward home from work in the rush hour, Londoners must often leave their cars a 20-minute walk...