Word: bolsheviks
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Many of the new words have surprisingly old-fashioned genealogies. People were "mugged" in provincial Lincolnshire as early as 1866, as in "I gave him a sound mugging, he was so chappy." A Mrs. P. Snowden, traveling in Bolshevik Russia, went "behind the Iron Curtain at last" in 1920, a generation before Winston Churchill gave the term currency in a speech at the end of World...
...midnight on July 16, 1918, in the Ural mining town of Ekaterinburg, Bolshevik jailers gunned down the Russian royal family. Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, their 14-year-old hemophiliac son Alexei and his four sisters were all shot. A dubious postscript holds that one of the girls, the Grand Duchess Anastasia, escaped and is still alive...
...three of the 15 Politburo members are under 60; only one of these. Fyodor Kulakov, 58, appears to be correctly positioned for a run at the top job. Kulakov, an agronomist and highly visible Brezhnev protege, delivered the keynote speech at this year's traditional observation of the Bolshevik Revolution...
HOWARD BAKER, 50, the Watergate TV star who is Tennessee's other Senator, is far better known and more moderate than Brock. Says he: "In Washington I'm thought of as a conservative, but in Tennessee I'm thought of as a Bolshevik." He supported fair housing and opposed repeal of the one-man, one-vote principle. He also opposes busing and the Consumer Protection Agency and often votes against Pentagon cutbacks. His ACA ratings in 1975 dropped to 54% from previous ratings in the 70s. But he has never taken pains to ingratiate himself with party...
...fencing in the 1912 Stockholm Games after a dispute over the rules. In 1956 Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon did not compete because of the Suez crisis. In the 1920 Antwerp Games and the 1948 London Games, the loser nations from the world wars were barred. Following the Bolshevik Revolution, the Soviet Union stayed out of Olympic competition until the 1952 Helsinki Games. But never before have strictly pragmatic political considerations, as in the case of Canada v. Taiwan, been thrust upon the Games, and the consequences are explosive...