Word: baikal
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...were paving more and more streets with asphalt in an effort to end the dust storms that have plagued them for centuries. Irkutsk swarmed with thousands of students beginning the new school year at the city's three universities, two medical colleges and eight technical institutes. On Lake Baikal, the deepest in the world, fishermen cast their nets for the tasty omul...
...larger European area, centered farther west so as to include southeast Britain, all France and Germany, all of the satellites-but practically none of Russia itself. On the other side of the world the Russians offered to open up all of Siberia east of but not including the Lake Baikal atomic test area, in return for an unlimited look at "approximately equal" U.S. territories-Alaska and all of the U.S. west of the Mississippi...
...voice was too loud for Stalin. Recalled to Moscow, he was named one of eight judges in the court-martial of Tukhachevsky, duly joined in the death sentence. The following year he himself disappeared, leaving the Japanese attack he had forecast to be belatedly met in the Lake Baikal region in 1939 by Georgy Zhukov...
...official U.S. Army handout, Okinawa-based bombers "have a far greater flexibility in choice of target areas than those based in either Japan or in the Philippines . . . They can reach all important target areas within an arc which includes all of Southeast Asia, the whole of China, the Lake Baikal industrial area, eastern Siberia, and the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula." In other words, Okinawa is the spearhead of U.S. retaliatory power in the Far East...
...dialectical drubbing that he would not soon forget. France's nimble Georges Bidault, whom Molotov tried hardest to woo, tore into Russia's plan for an "us Europeans" pact that would shove the U.S. out of Europe, and leave all of Russia in. Snapped Bidault: "Lake Baikal and Vladivostok are no more European than the Mississippi and Chicago...