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Word: distent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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From remote, barbaric Alma Alta, on the distent rim of Russian Turkestan, Great Leo Davidovich Trotsky returned, last week, toward the civilized world. With him traveled his wife and son, glad to end a bitter exile (TIME, Jan. 30, 1928). But in European Communist centres it was feared that Trotsky's release from banishment was a trick and prophets croaked that he would be "accidentally" killed en route...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Back to the World | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

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