Word: georgies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...YORK-Generlissimo Stalin has quietly carried out a shake-up in the high command of the Red Army, it became known tonight, in which Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov, top Soviet war here, has been relegated to the relatively obscure command of the Odessa Military District...
...Bulgaria, the Fatherland Front's Georgi Dimitroff continued his ruthless campaign against the opposition, checked slightly by the presence of U.S. political representative Maynard Barnes and by the fact that Bulgaria needs U.S. economic aid. For the second time, Moscow urged the Bulgarian Government to throw out Barnes; for the second time, the Government regretfully refused (and Dimitroff was promptly summoned to Moscow). On other issues, Sofia has been more obedient; it has dropped its old territorial claims against Comrade Tito's Yugoslavia (for Mother Russia wants a united satellite family), has instead joined the general Balkan campaign...
...Army's vigilant rocket guns and long-range artillery rolled through Red Square, Stalin stood on the topmost level of Lenin's tomb. Smiling affably, he leaned over to the level below, bright with bemedaled Red Army officers, and invited Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov to come up and stand beside him. Down on the streets, the proletariat clustered around cheap food stands, dance bands and vaudeville shows...
Blond, 200-lb. Russian Ambassador Dmitri Alexandrovich Zhukov, who had chartered a DC-4 in Newark last week and had flown down with his wife and two children, seemed more embarrassed than pleased by the flamboyant reception. He hastily denied a local Communist boast that he was Marshal Georgi Zhukov's nephew, said he merely shared the same name-"just as Fernandez is the name of your Foreign Minister and also that of a prize fighter, Antonio Fernández...
...Russia awarded a Stalin Prize to Konstantin Petrzhak and Georgi Flerov for their three-year-old "discovery of the occurence of spontaneous disintegration of uranium." Wired A.P. from Moscow: "Foreigners here have noted an air of Russian confidence regarding atomic research." Said a high Washington source: "The Soviets have been working for years on the atom. There should not be any surprise if they discover its secrets...