Word: keyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hatching Cunning Schemes." The climax of the hate campaign came with an address given by Khrushchev to the workers of the Elektrosila factory in Leningrad, and broadcast nationally. Khrushchev accused Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich of "hatching cunning schemes" to obtain "key positions in the party," and called Shepilov "a most shameless double-dealing individual...
...other Old Communists), had been to ease Stalin Protégé Malenkov out of the First Party Secretaryship, and 23 months later to force him to resign the Premiership, pleading incompetence ("My insufficient experience, my guilt and responsibility") on the way. This success may have given Khrushchev the key to his later maneuverings, for they were based on the tactic of winning to his side those people persecuted by Stalin, e.g., Zhukov and other Red marshals, and boldly stigmatizing his old party rivals as associates of the hated Stalin. The fact that he himself had been a Stalin crony...
...when he was cleaning out opposition in the Ukraine. Four new faces were added: Otto Kuusinen, 76, a longtime Finnish Communist, Averky Aristov from Chelyabinsk in the Urals, Nikolai Belyaev from the Altai Krai in Siberia, and Nikolai Ignatov, a onetime partisan hero whom Khrushchev had planted in a key spot during the preparation of the Leningrad Case...
...Soldier Moves Up. The rise of Marshal Zhukov, the only real fighting man (except the ancient Voroshilov) admitted to the top Presidium of the party, gave rise to a rash of headlines and a flurry of commentators' speculations on the key role of the Red army. But U.S. specialists on Soviet affairs do not go so far: they point out that Zhukov was just one of five alternates who automatically moved up to fill a vacancy; had the army exacted a special price for its support of Khrushchev, some other marshal would presumably have moved up to alternate...
...sure, like the election itself, Egypt's happy state was not quite all it seemed to be. Before trusting his future to the 5,000,000 Egyptians who trooped to the polls last week, Strongman Nasser had made sure of the results by eliminating all opposition in the key districts. Even so, some 16 voters were reported killed in the fray and another 40 injured; when the final count was made, the Interior Ministry announced that new elections would have to be held in 172 out of the 269 districts reporting since no candidate had been able to muster...