Word: forwarder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week began the second meeting of this session of the Supreme Soviet. The budget had been received and debated; custom called for a report on foreign affairs, made at the last session by Premier Georgy Malenkov. Instead, putty-nosed Alexander Volkov, Chairman of the Council of the Union, stepped forward to the rostrum. He had, he said, a communication from Comrade Malenkov. Volkov began reading from a paper in hand...
Politics meant provoking German atrocities in order to disillusion the captive Ukrainian people with their German liberators and. as the Red army went forward, catching up with and liquidating Ukrainian nationalists and non-Soviet partisans. He came out of the war wearing the mark of that stony brutality which characterizes all the men who were around Stalin...
...military apogee was the Battle of Berlin. He launched 4,000 tanks, supported by 5,000 planes and 22,000 guns. into a 50-mile-wide front. Describing the victory to a group of Americans, Zhukov said: "I brought my tanks against them like this," pushing a matchbox forward. "Then two fresh artillery groups over here. And the infantry here...
...Room for Roughhouse. A dogged competitor who would probably run right up the back of a man in his way, Dwyer refused to be tricked into that early scrap. He held himself in, listened like an old-timer to that split-second stopwatch ticking in his head. Up forward, Santee finished the first half in 1:59. It was too fast. Both he and Nielsen were running down. With four laps to go, Freddie Dwyer knew it was time to move. Taking no chances of repeating the past week's roughhouse, he swung to the outside and began...
...five U.S. correspondents in Moscow, the meeting last week of Russia's Supreme Soviet was a quiet story-until Chairman Volkov stepped forward and read Malenkov's resignation. Led by United Press Correspondent Kenneth Brodney. the newsmen bolted for the door, raced down four flights of stairs, and ran across three large Kremlin courtyards to their cars. While they scribbled notes, Russian chauffeurs sped them over the city's slush-covered streets to the Central Telegraph Office. Brodney got there first, put through a phone call to London and scored a clean 19-minute beat...