Word: izvestia
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...most excitement trying to beat each other to the wire. After breakfast (tea, toast, and cold sausage, cold fish, occasionally an omelet), in their dimly lit, chill rooms at Moscow's squat Metropole Hotel each morning, they hurriedly compose stories culled from four Moscow papers-Pravda, Red Star, Izvestia, Komsomolskaya Pravda. They get their stories reviewed by Russia's sharp censors, then they race to the cable office. For a time Reuters' Harold King had the edge because he hired a motorcyclist. Nowadays U.P. and A.P., employing two fawn-fast girl runners, Venus and Zena, usually...
...Major Krechet wrote in Moscow's Izvestia: "How will the Fascists be able to repay for the losses of thousands upon thousands of Russian families? The Hitlerites should be annihilated by the dozens, by the thousands, like rats...
Contrasting with such hints of internal trouble was this picture of a united fighting & working people drawn by an Izvestia correspondent who visited embattled, determined, heroic, industrial Stalingrad...
...Izvestia, Soviet Government paper, made an important disclosure of one reason why last year's assault on Leningrad failed. Only 21 German divisions were used along a 200-mile front. If supply roads have been improved sufficiently this winter, Hitler might try to throw in enough more men and machines to crack Leningrad defenses despite its strong garrison and hard-fighting citizen army...
Within Leningrad the population became, according to Izvestia, "a wall of steel and concrete barring the enemy at the entrance." Listening to the radio, the defenders heard a broadcast from London's conservative...