Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Among those who perished were my close friends, and nobody would succeed in convincing me that they were traitors. Sergei Eisenstein [the famous Soviet movie director] told me of his meetings with Stalin, who spoke of the necessity to extol Ivan the Terrible and added that Peter the Great didn't cut off enough heads." Summing up his thoughts about Stalin, Ehrenburg says: "If he just read the list of all his victims, he would not have been able to do anything else...
...anecdotal descriptions of lobbies, press, and House personnel, are primarily valuable for random inside information and for Bolling's priceless characterizations: William Colmer's political position "is perhaps slightly to the left of Ivan the Terrible"; Adam Clayton Powell's attention span "has been variously estimated as ranging between forty seconds to two minutes"; the Rule's Committee is "Howard Worth Smith's efficiently run cemetery" and "that contemporary version of a French Bourban soirees...
...Wilbur J. Cohen, 51, an Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, will become Under Secretary, replacing a political appointee, Ivan Nestingen, onetime mayor of Madison, Wis., who has resigned. Cohen, who is also from Wisconsin, was considered too liberal by many Senators when President Kennedy appointed him in 1961; he was confirmed by a one-vote margin in the Senate. An assistant to Franklin Roosevelt's Cabinet Committee on Economic Security, which drafted the original Social Security Act, he has been involved ever since in Government welfare programs, now is on an extended leave of absence from...
...government huffily denounced all the rumors as "fantastic fabrications and malicious propaganda." To be sure, one government official had committed suicide: Ivan Todorov-Gorunya, 48, a wartime underground leader and a Central Committee member. "The truth is," insisted the report, "that on learning about his criminal activity being discovered, he fell into a deep depression and committed suicide." According to one source, the "deep depression" was the gulf between Todorov-Gorunya's Sofia apartment window and the street below...
With two out in the bottom of the eighth, the Crimson scored an insurance run against Ivan Tylawsky, who relieved starter Bob Tucker in the seventh. Bilodeau singled, stole second, and scored on O'Donnell's single to center...