Word: kopecks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hakim Amer, Nasser's grinning top soldier, and roasted "the imperialists and colonialists who try to rob and impose a perpetual yoke on the Arab people." The Soviet Union, "which harbors no such ambitions because it possesses all they have except bananas," said Khrushchev, "will not give a kopeck" to any joint East-West program for economic assistance. "We will help them ourselves." At a Kremlin reception two days later, Premier Khrushchev announced that the Soviet Union had agreed to advance the U.A.R. 400 million rubles ($40 million at the tourist rate) to help Nasser build the Aswan High...
Died. Walter Duranty, 73, bald, wooden-legged (from a 1924 train wreck), Pulitzer Prizewinning (1932) New York Times foreign correspondent (1913-39), novelist (One Life, One Kopeck), autobiographer (I Write as I Please), longtime (1921-34) No. 1 Timesman in Russia and No. 1 Russian apologist in the U.S. (when Stalin doomed some 3,000,000 peasants to death from starvation by withholding grain, Duranty wrote: "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs"); of a stomach ailment; in the Orlando, Fla. hospital where he last week married his second wife, Anna Enwright, widow of a Florida judge...
Worms in the Classics. For the first time, Stalin's successor shed the pretense of "collective leadership" to dish out his own ideological pronouncements. They were earthy and anything but liberal. Khrushchev sneered at "hardheads," "Talmudists" and "parrots" who "learned by heart" old theoretical phrases "not worth a kopeck...
...longshoremen that it was the British, not the Russians, who stood to lose on the crab meat (which had been foisted on the British by Russia in place of promised timber). Similarly, the furs had already been bought by U.S. furriers; Russia wouldn't lose a kopeck on them. To the A.F.L. longshoremen the issue was simple: they were all Russian goods. Said a dockers' spokesman: "Let them send their crab meat ... to the Reds in North Korea-that's where they are sending their tanks, guns [and] planes...
...time of the Czar's execution in 1918 some 75,000 of the bonds, each with a face value of $1,000, were floating around the U.S. One of the first acts of the Soviet government was to repudiate them, and they have never been worth a kopeck since. Yet U.S. speculators have never tired of trading in them and the bonds have kept some market "value"-based on nothing but hope that Russia some day will redeem them...