Word: dears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dear Galahad...
Moreover, Russian officialdom began to experience a terror which continues to this day. For the murder of Stalin's "Dear Friend," Sergei M. Kirov, head of the Leningrad Soviet, who had once called Comrade Stalin the "greatest leader of all times and all nations," 117 persons were known to have been put to death. That started the fiercest empire-wide purge of modern times. Thousands were executed with only a ghost of a trial. Secret police reigned as ruthlessly over Russia as in Tsarist times. First it was the Cheka, next the OGPU, later the N.K.V.D.-but essentially they...
...diminutive capital, graceful is the King's effort to dance with Gulliver's finger for a partner. But the closest Gulliver's Travels comes to invention of Disney calibre are Sneak, Snoop and Snitch, King Bombo's secret agents, to whom he sends letters beginning: "Dear Spies...