Word: bulganins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warsaw, Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich all spoke during the debate, but on the next-to-last day, seeing the tide turning against them, all joined abjectly in a bout of selfcriticism. To get his unanimous vote of condemnation against them, Khrushchev was reported to have promised his crony Bulganin that sanctions would not be imposed on the four men: i.e., their lives would be spared. If Khrushchev so promised, would he keep that promise...
...classic sense of destruction of tanks, warships, guns, most Western capitals found that their answer was no: as Macmillan recently told Bulganin, the arms buildup could hardly stop until the legitimate political fears that produced it had been overcome. But the subject of the London talks was not, strictly speaking, disarmament, but the development of a dueling code. Having discovered that neither side could attack the other (or even defend itself) without incurring self-destruction, both were concerned that no sudden moves or impulsive gestures, misunderstood by nervous opponents, should plunge them together into nuclear oblivion. The proposals were...
...visitors shouted out a greeting to a Finnish army honor guard. Like well-drilled children in an old-fashioned schoolroom, the soldiers chorused back: "Hyvaapaivaa, Herra Paaminesteri-Good day, Mr. Prime Minister." For the first time since their visit to Britain more than a year ago, Bulganin and Khrushchev had again taken their road show outside the Iron Curtain...
...wreath on the grave of Finland's late President Juho Paasikivi*. For the first 24 hours they even belied their well-earned reputation for heavy tippling. At the first state banquet in Helsinki, high-living Nikita Khrushchev limited himself to one Martini, and goateed Premier Bulganin clung firmly to a glass of orange juice, whirling his forefinger alongside his temple to indicate that stronger liquids made him dizzy. What little serious drinking took place was done by dour Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who hopped about clinking glasses in an unpracticed attempt to work up a bit of gaiety. Perhaps...
...Helsinki in an open car, waved to the sidewalk throngs, nol one hand waved in reply, and many a back was pointedly turned. By the end of their first day in Finland, the Russians were so inured to being ignored that when at last a dozen Finns applauded, both Bulganin and Khrushchev swiveled around to see who had broken the silence...