Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...choleric roar, a dozen expressions, from the impish grin to the basilisk glare. For all his arrogance, he is a much more entertaining performer than Russia's wooden men-Molotov, Malik, Gromyko. He is also a remarkable survivor of 37 years of power struggle in the Kremlin. A onetime Menshevik, he came through unscathed when the Bolsheviks put the Mensheviks out of business in 1921. He not only rode out the great purges of the '30s but was the flamboyant and savage state prosecutor of their victims. He became a diplomat in 1940. Stalin's death brought...
Although declining steadily percentage-wise during the past 34 years, they are still responsible for over one-fourth of the school's funds. And even the briefest study of the history and current contribution of investments to the University proves that Harvard is not a Kremlin-on-the-Charles but rather a house that capitalism built and a house whose future is tied inextricably with that of its builder
...proposal was unveiled, with a certain unconscious appropriateness, on April 1, and it actually amounted to this: 1) the U.S. would join a Kremlin-organized coalition conceived with the ultimate aim of pushing the U.S. out of Europe, while 2) Russia would contribute armed forces and help plot the strategy of the grand Western alliance that was created only to stand off the armed forces of Russia...
...telephoned Stockholm newspapers to protest that the times were too serious for playing April Fool jokes in the headlines. Even the Communists were perplexed. Example: after years of obediently denouncing NATO as "aggressive . . . warmongering . . . imperialist," editorialists for East German newspapers stumbled all over themselves trying to explain why the Kremlin was suddenly applying for NATO membership and inviting the American imperialists into the peace-loving proletarian camp...
...About one in three of the Red "policemen" has deserted or has been purged since the June 17 riots, according to West German sources.) Last week, for the first time, the Communists called the so-called police by their proper name: the East German Streitkrafte (fighting forces). Diplomatically, the Kremlin hoped for even greater gains. A "sovereign" East Germany could plausibly be a step toward the gargantuan pan-European security pact that Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov proposed at the Berlin Conference as a Red alternative to NATO (TIME, Feb. 22). It might also force the West, which has previously been...