Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ivan, Scram. Impatient with what he called "the old, fearful, pussyfooting non-combatants garbed in the robes of diplomatic wisdom," Reuter jeered at the Russians and at the people who would bend before them. "What are the Soviets after?" he asked sarcastically. "What is the significance of the third sentence in the second paragraph of some editorial in a propaganda sheet steered from Moscow? This wholly unimaginative, enfeebled attitude of people who stare like rabbits at a snake, and wait to be devoured-this just fills the Soviets with contempt...
...said. Reuter's idea of action was to rearm Germany within a European framework, then launch a "political offensive to get the Soviets peacefully out of Europe." "Why should only the Soviets say, "Yank, go home!' " he demanded. "Why don't we all start saying 'Ivan, scram...
...raise production. Said Avrutin: "Seven hours for a canvas of 57 by 84 centimeters [22 in. by 43 in.]? There is no need to waste so much time." Avrutin turned for an example to the task of copying Morning in the Pine Forest, a 19th century favorite by Ivan Shishkin. "The depth of the forest takes two hours; one more hour for the broken trees; for the pink sky, one additional hour. The four bears require not more than 15 minutes each. For general touching up, one hour more. The total," he finished, "makes six hours. This will...
Russian psychiatrists have long frowned on lobotomy, a drastic operation developed in Portugal and the U.S. but by no means approved by all Western specialists (TIME, June 22). For a generation, Russia's doctors have been conditioned to follow, sheeplike, the late Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, of conditioned-reflex fame. Following his patterns, they believe that if any part of the physical brain is damaged or destroyed, the mind is damaged beyond repair. Lobotomy, argued Oserezski, damages the high brain centers and turns a human being into a vegetable. He quoted a Soviet colleague as saying that it "makes idiots...
...Army chaplains have won 332 decorations for gallantry in the Korean war, announced Major General Ivan L. Bennett, Army chief of chaplains. Their casualty total, as announced by General Bennett: 13 chaplains killed or missing, 21 wounded...