Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russia], the habits of slavery are too deeply implanted." says a Russian in Ivan Turgenev's novel Smoke. "We must have a master in everything . . . This master is mostly a living person, but sometimes a so-called movement gets the upper hand . . . Why and on the strength of what reasons we [Russians] become slaves is a mystery, but such, it seems, is our nature...
Under the supervision of Ivan Alexander, Magnolia's exploration chief, four full-fledged geologists and two technicians practiced skin diving until they could pass the Navy's test for frogmen. Then, led by Dr. Daniel Feray, they embarked on the Gulf in a converted shrimp boat, went overboard and flapped along the bottom. Working in water up to 65 ft. deep off eastern Texas, they picked up samples of sediments, gathered sea creatures, e.g., sand dollars and mud-living worms, and studied the growth of marine vegetation. They pursued and captured in glass jars the bubbles of natural...
...Bern, Switzerland, a band of tight-lipped Russians rolled up an overwhelming lead in the fifth European Games (Europe's off-year Olympics) despite their wrong-way marathoner, Ivan Filin. who dogmatically swung left as he entered the stadium for the last lap, and lost out to Finland's Veikko Karvonen, who had no qualms about right-hand turns. In what may be his last appearance on the track, Britain's Roger Bannister loafed to an easy victory in the 1,500-meter run. His time...
Labyrinthine beyond all final mapping are the convolutions of history. Nothing stays put. It was once settled, apparently, that Ivan the Terrible was terrible, until in 1945 Sergei Eisenstein's movie "proved"' that Ivan's epithet merely meant that he struck terror into the hearts of his father land's dastardly enemies. But if Ivan was only questionably terrible, what of Roger ("The Terrible") Touhy? Here, surely, was solid ground. A nation that could trust neither czarist nor Soviet historians must be able to trust the rewritemen on its own Chicago newspapers...
...nine years past, Ivan Le Lorraine Albright has been laboring over the same painting (opposite). He hopes to finish it in another three. The painting more than justifies Albright's dedication to it even now: it is at least as able as it is odd. The overworked word unique fits Albright's accomplishment exactly...