Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Friend Koba. Even if bitter-memoried Tito had not made plain his dislike of Molotov, it was time for Old Stone Bottom to go. It was 50 years since he joined the Bolshevik party (as a boy of 16), and though he might now see the need for new methods, his name was too closely associated with that of Stalin to be the one to make them. His parents had been respectable people from the Volga region named Scriabin, related to the composer. Young Vyacheslav Mikhailovich ingratiated himself with the Bolsheviks by persuading a wealthy young bourgeois friend to finance...
...Foreign Minister. Joking with General Charles de Gaulle years later, Stalin said: "You got the better of Molotov. I think we'll have to shoot him." De Gaulle records that Molotov turned green. By containing his moments of terror and allowing himself to be Stalin's whipping boy, Molotov not only lived, but achieved fame. Stalin named factories, cities, ports after him. And in Western dictionaries he will doubt less be remembered for the "Molotov cocktail," the cheap Soviet gasoline bomb...
...drugs. There was so much loose talk about the drugs that they soon knew dozens of places to buy them, though many truck drivers emphatically refused to touch the stuff. Drivers were not the only customers: at a gas station in Charlotte, N.C. an inspector saw a teen-age boy plunk down a dollar bill for a bag of a dozen bennies (Benzedrine tablets), which wholesale in large quantities for about $2 a thousand...
...Parish. The idea of the Flying Angels took wing one bright summer's day in 1835 when a young vacationing Anglican minister named John Ashley stood with his son looking out over the Bristol Channel. The little boy pointed to two lonely islands, Steep Holme and Flat Holme, lying far out in the haze. "How can those people go to church, Father?" he asked...
...Brass Factory. In his long career, Sculptor Zorach has had more than his share of artistic hard knocks. As an immigrant boy in Cleveland, Ohio, he earned pennies selling newspapers, worked in a machine shop and brass factory before he quit school for good after the seventh grade and became an apprentice lithographer. Saving up $160, he set off for New York to study art, got back home flat broke almost a year later and saved up more money, this time to go to Paris...