Word: ilya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diplomatic box, Russian Minister Ilya Chernichev's face registered surprise, then realization, then smiling relief...
...Elliott started off by explaining that foreign correspondents have no more freedom in the United States than they have in Russia. Take . . . Ilya Ehrenburg. Throughout his recent stay in America the noted Soviet writer was followed by a State Department agent. . . . The U.S., Elliott continued, has no business meddling in the Danube area. . . . The same goes for the Dardanelles, he said...
...Average American, a Moscow lecture audience learned from lionized Littérateur Ilya Ehrenburg, guest in the U.S. last summer, is: a dreamer, overly self-confident, but a man of good intentions, and "no fool." He is politically immature, but there is hope for him; his mind is growing...
Even when turn-of-the-century artists tried to get the dramatic realism of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky into painting, none got much closer than Painter Ilya Repin's stagy Ivan the Terrible...
Last week, nearing the end of her first eye-opening trip outside Russia. Tamara dipped carefully into her small stock of English words, came up with: "American life is surrounded by washing machines but there is more underneath." Like Ilya Ehrenburg, she had spent a large part of her time in the South (Gilmore's home is in Selma, Ala.). She was astonished at the friendliness of average people. "They send you flowers and cake and never say who it is from." At Maxwell Field, Alabama, she had an experience that amazed her: the commanding general conducted...