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Word: komsomolskaya (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Komsomolskaya Pravda, another complained: "The soil begins to dry . . . The cause is lack of manpower. Things are managed the wrong way. Seventeen-year-old girls from the city who have never held a pitchfork in their hands work in the hayfields, while two husky kolkhoz fellows just sit by the stove, drink vodka and tell funny jokes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Trishka's Coat | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

Another Young Communist publication, the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, belabored the Soviet Olympic squad for its performance at Helsinki though it racked up an unofficial point score second only to the U.S. score. But that was not good enough, said Komsomolskaya Pravda. As a matter of fact, both trainers and athletes fell down on the job. Because of their trainer's incompetence, the sprinters were sadly out of condition. The tactical preparation of the distance runners was "primitive." Item: two marathoners "overestimated their strength and did not show the necessary will to victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Truth about Beizbol | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

...thought. While he clicked out copy in Moscow's Hotel Metropole, she carted out the empty vodka bottles, lined up tickets for a concert of the Leningrad Jazz Band, checked on laundry, and even darned his socks. Then one day, before she could so much as say Komsomolskaya Pravda, Journalist Ronald Matthews proposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Russian Testament | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

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