Word: chaika
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...foot; the few lucky ones who own cars excitedly opened them up to the maximum 80 m.p.h., unmindful of the washboard ripples and wavy indentations on the brand-new roadbed. Even Premier Nikita Khrushchev had his driver take him out for a run around the circuit in his sleek Chaika limousine. Acknowledging the cheers of bystanders, Khrushchev paused to congratulate officials, urged them to put up some restaurants and motels along the way. And, suggested Khrushchev in an afterthought, next time they build a highway, a little more attention might be paid to the quality of the surface...
Behind the façade of normalcy, grim business proceeded. The Chaika limousines of Moscow's top officials rolled in and out of the Kremlin as the Council of Ministers met. Defense Minister Marshal Rodion Malinovsky put his vast air, sea and land force on a state of alert. None of this could disguise the fact that, stage by stage, Khrushchev was backing away from conflict. His offer of a deal with the West told the astonished Russian public for the first time that Russian missiles were in Cuba. His agreement to withdraw them was of course hailed...
...black, Russian-built Chaika, right on time, drove past the barbed-wire fence up to the door of the massive stone and stucco building that serves...
...Chaika car that would have been exportable, instead turned over the whole amount to Moscow's dilapidated Baptist Church, only Protestant church in the Soviet capital. It was a gift, said he, in memory of his grandfather, a Baptist minister in Texas. Later, amidst more teary farewells at a Moscow airport, he flew off for home on the same plane with Barbara Powers, wife of one of the least popular Americans in Russia...