Word: hering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Nonsense." This jovial atmosphere cooled when Nixon & Co. were taken to visit the 16,000-ton Lenin, Russia's vaunted atomic icebreaker, and Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover asked to visit the ship's reactor room-only to be told that it was "closed" for the day. "Nonsense," snapped...
No Eggs. Next day Nixon and his swelling entourage-"This is beginning to look like Coxey's Army," cracked one U.S. correspondent-headed east to Russia's great Siberian hinterland, where the earth is black and rich, and sunflowers (grown for their commercial oil) lattice the countryside with...
And so began a new flurry of sessions, including some bearing the repellent name of "working teas." Inevitably Gromyko sidled up to Herter and privately suggested giving ground a little here or there, to keep the talk going. The West Germans, alarmed at the possibility of last-minute "ill-considered...
Kneading a white handkerchief over his knuckled fist, Kassem explained that he had "gathered you here to reprove you and to place blame on you and your editors ... for indulging in recrimination, confusing the people, and creating the present condition in the country."
"My father went out. If he comes back and sees you here, he will kill us."