Word: death
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khrushchev's rubber-stamp loyalty to superiors brought him the nomination of Stalin's heirs, after Stalin's death, for the party's first secretaryship. Khrushchev's mastery of the party regional machinery enabled him to build the personal power that ousted Stalin's heirs: Georgy Malenkov, Vyacheslav Molotov, Lazar Kaganovich, even the Red army's authentic hero Marshal Zhukov. But Khrushchev's elemental knowledge of the people told him that the Soviet's rising technology needed some freedom from terror, and he set a new course of demote, not destroy...
...again beside Los Angeles' Mayor Norris Poulson. Poulson keynoted a speech in which he was supposed to be introducing Khrushchev to an echo of Patrick Henry. "You shall not bury us," he told Khrushchev, "and we shall not bury you. But, if challenged, we shall fight to the death to preserve...
...talking seriously because I have come here with serious intentions, and you try to reduce the matter to simply a joke. It is a question of war or peace between our countries, a question of the life or death of the people...
...Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who once complained that there were two State Departments-his own and Bohlen's. As soon as Bohlen's standard four-year tour was up in 1957, Dulles took him out of Moscow and sent him to Manila. After Dulles' death, top State Department careermen urged Secretary of State Christian A. Herter to bring Chip Bohlen back into his special field of U.S.-Soviet relations. This week the State Department announced that Expert Bohlen had been named to head a new policy-planning staff that will advise Herter on cold...
...been drawn by the prospect of continuing to subsist through an infinite temporal series--no one thirsted for "eternal happiness," I suspect, in a literal sense. It would be an insipid life of everlasting boredom, as wits like Shaw have often pointed out. Indeed it is the fact of death that gives value to life; only the certainty that the temporal series is finite imparts any worth to a given point or segment...