Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months since the last meeting of the Supreme Soviet, the Kremlin's ancient crenelated brick walls have been shaken by momentous events, and the 1,300 delegates assembling this week to do what they are told could only guess whether they would be greeted with a whiff of reassurance, a burst of recriminations or a snuffing of careers...
...past month the Kremlin leaders have been stumping their vast country like politicians. Khrushchev addressed a mass meeting in Tashkent, Bulganin talked in Stalinabad. Mikoyan in Ashkhabad (significantly all in Moslem areas of Soviet Central Asia). Molotov was haranguing central Russia, Malenkov speechmaking near the Urals and Kaganovich in Siberia. Wherever they went, they conferred orders and decorations, talked informally with party organizers and worthy workers. This was political fence-mending, Russian style...
Dulles said to abandon a policy because of fear of what Russia might do would in effect permit the Kremlin to dictate American actions...
...factors that gave the Hungarian revolution its first success was the low morale of the hated AVH, the state security police. All the Kremlin talk of coexistence, and Russia's downgrading of Stalinist police methods, had made the AVH feel that they might be sold out at any time by their Moscow bosses. Now a new Hungarian security-police force, composed of old AVH stalwarts, diehard Communists and trade-union toughies, to the number of 10,000, has been formed, and every effort is being made to make them feel that not only do they have the backing...
...Kremlin's glittering Hall of St. George, Celestine Bohlen, 6, daughter of U.S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R.. Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen, joined some 2,000 kiddies in celebrating the Russian Christmas season. They howled and clapped for acrobats, singers and magicians, then met a bearded gentleman strongly resembling Santa Claus but introduced himself as Grandfather Frost. He led the children around a towering evergreen that looked exactly like a Christmas tree but, in the parlance of atheistic Communists, was disguised under the tinkly title of "New Year's tree...