Word: landmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Correspondents hoped that this was not only a landmark, but a milestone...
...Kharkov atrocity trial (TIME, Dec. 27) was an important landmark for the foreign press in Russia. Correspondents are usually kept in Moscow, have to get their news secondhand from communique and Soviet papers. At Kharkov, for the first time in the memory of the oldest Moscow writer, they were allowed to cover a Russian news event at the scene. A dozen U.S. and British reporters and one Frenchman left Moscow's Metropole Hotel before dawn, drove to an airfield, flew at housetop height to Kharkov. Interpreters translated for them during the proceedings, then transcribed their stories speedily into Russian...
Whether or not the new status of the Russian Orthodox Church was permanent (and there were many signs that it was), as a tactic of the Soviet Government the change was still big enough with political consequences to be a landmark in the history of Russia and of Europe, and therefore of the world...
...ucar (Sugar Loaf Mountain) is an outstanding Rio de Janeiro landmark...
...Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill found the right answers, Quebec's Citadel, where the end of New France was once written by the great Wolfe, may again become a landmark of history. If they did not, their conference may some day be known as the most tragic failure of World...