Word: hadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As for "payola," Russia has its own Aaron Brenner, chief of Moscow's Bus Depot No. 7. Brenner auctioned off the best routes to drivers, charged them 150 rubles when their buses needed new motors, 200 for a new bus, 500 rubles hush money whenever they had an accident...
Through it all, Swart, a onetime Hollywood bit-player cowboy who towers 6 ft. 7 in., managed a perpetual wan smile, and by the time he left for home the hue and cry had died down, even if no one was happy that the Queen's representative in South...
The explanation that came from high-powered RFE Director Erik Hazelhoff, 42, onetime NBC executive, was really bizarre, even to those who work in an atmosphere of exposing intrigues. By the sudden closing, Hazelhoff announced dramatically, RFE had averted "an attempted mass poisoning"; a double agent in RFE's...
To counter skepticism, the U.S. State Department stepped in to confirm "a nefarious plot," and U.S. Army Headquarters in Heidelberg reported that its counter-intelligence agents had discovered the guilty Communist, one Jaroslav Nemec, who works in the Czechoslovak consulate at Salzburg, Austria.
The Communists claimed that the farmers' pastures had been very dry. The farmers growled that the Communists' planning had been all wet. Somehow or other, so much of Poland's livestock had been shipped to market last season that the country was fresh out of meat. Such...