Word: kleig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history-steeped halls of the Kremlin, where Czars were crowned, the 1,378 comrade Deputies of the newly elected Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. assembled amid all the panoply and portent of a Communist coronation. Kleig lights blazed down from the Corinthian capitals of St. Andrew's Hall; diplomats and newsmen packed the galleries, photographers jammed the aisles. At one minute past 5 o'clock, the top half-dozen Communist bosses entered from the side, led by bald Nikita Khrushchev with his two Orders of Lenin gleaming from his dark lapel. Joining Russian-fashion in the applause...
...biggest surprise reprisal was strictly a TV spectacular. Called to Moscow's House of Journalists one morning last week, 200 foreign and Communist correspondents found batteries of kleig lights and TV cameras focused on four pale men surrounded by a curious array of pistols, explosives, maps. Soviet currency, miniature radio transmitters, parachutes and poison pills. Soviet Foreign Ministry Press Chief Leonid Ilyichev identified the four men as Russian refugees, recruited as spies by the U.S. and parachuted into the Soviet Union...
...only propaganda and enmity. In actuality, the forthcoming four-power meeting will not be mainly among the heads of governments. Instead, it will be the first of what may be a series of foreign-minister conferences, cluttered in this case by the presence of four distinguished spectators and the kleig lights which always accompany them...