Word: kopeck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Though hardly embarrassing to Tito, other fascinating snatches of Stalin's conversation with Djilas: "Churchill is the kind who, if you don't watch him, will slip a kopeck out of your pocket. And Roosevelt? He dips in his hand only for bigger coins." "The West will make Western Germany their own, and we shall turn Eastern Germany into our state . . . We shall recover in 15 or 20 years and then we'll have another...
Russia's most useful eavesdropping weapon is a tiny, kopeck-sized reflector. It was such a reflector, installed inside a plaque of the U.S. Great Seal in the Moscow embassy, that U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge displayed to the Security Council last year. When an infra-red beam is aimed at the reflector from outdoors, it acts as a microphone. Alternatively, but less reliably, the infra-red beam can be trained on any imperceptibly oscillating object, such as a metal lampshade or empty highball glass, that can act as a crude reflector for conversation...