Word: lazare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lusty old Lazar M. Kaganovich, wartime commissar for transport, reputedly Stalin's brother-in-law, made toast after toast, in loud, rambling, unguarded speeches. Toasting "the great friendship of the Soviet peoples," he ran down the list of Soviet nationalities: "Tadzhiks, Uzbeks, Kazakhs...
Brigands & Patriots. All over Tunisia, similar parleys went on. Handsome Lazar Shraiti, 36, the most famous of all the fellagha chiefs, marched into Gafsa after nearly three years of outlawry, turned over 126 men and 112 rifles and carbines to the French, then went back to contact the hundreds of other fellaghas under his command. In his tiny stone hideout, he told TIME Correspondent William McHale, "I am a civilian...
...junta consists of Premier Georgy Malenkov ("full of old-fashioned grace"), Nikita Khrushchev ("hail fellow well met"), Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov ("quiet, patient and reasonable"), Lazar Kaganovich ("likes his liquor"), N. A. Bulganin ("handsome and witty"), A. I. Mikoyan ("probably the sharpest and cleverest of all"). All are about the same height (5 ft. 4 in.), and all have the common secondary goal of convincing their own people and the West that the "Stalin terror" is over. But Salisbury emphasizes that the change is only on the surface; their primary goal remains the same: worldwide Communist dictatorship...
Host Molotov was plainly irritated at his fellow party Presidium member, First Deputy Premier Lazar Kaganovich, who, despite repeated shushings, insisted on proposing toast after toast, while waspish Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan heckled him from the side. At one point Kaganovich, a former Ukrainian commissar, called the company's attention to "the great friendship of all peoples of the So viet Union," listing the Soviet states with one pointed omission. "What about the Georgians?" snapped Armenian Mikoyan, an old friend of Georgian Lavrenty Beria who had been arrested four months before. "Oh yes," said Kaganovich without enthusiasm, "the Georgians...
...Artists) is pretty well taken care of in the words of a six-year-old boy who saw the picture. "It got sad in the middle," he said, "but it happiered at the end." The suggestion of a fallen cake, sunk under the weight of its unassimilated sugar, fits Lazar Wechsler's film as well as Johanna Spyri's book (here done in film for the second time), but young children will probably like the one as well as they do the other. Heidi herself is freshly, simply played by Elsbeth Sigmund, and her crusty grandfather is done...