Word: grigor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Timid, red-nosed Grigor Moisil, Rumanian ambassador to Turkey, may have longed to do much the same thing. He heard that Foreign Minister Ana Pauker had purged his good friend Justice Minister Lucretiu Patrascanu, and lived in fear that he himself would be called home. Last week, within a 24-hour span, four announcements in Ankara gave a clue to his state of mind: 1) the Turkish government announced that Grigor had decided to quit his post and move to Switzerland; 2) the Rumanian embassy announced that he had died of eating poisoned mushrooms; 3) the Rumanian embassy announced that...
Arthur William Murphy, Jr., (Economics), Robert Grant Neiley (History), Howard Tredennick Oedel (History), Benjamin Owain Rees (Philosophy), Harold Arthur Rosenblum, Gerard Philip Sheehan (Sociology), Edmund Grigor Sullivan, Jr. (History), Robert Henry Troescher (History), John Martin Ward (Classics), Philip Lewis Williams (Economics), James Milton Wolf (Economics...
Canny Catherine would furnish "neither men, ships, nor money" for trade with the Alaska region. But she was willing to let the merchants furnish them. So the Siberian sea trader, Grigor Shelekhov, decided (circa 1780) to plant a Russian, colony in North America...