Word: leningraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians are at work on three 35,000-ton battleships, each "equipped with two catapult towers for firing radio-controlled aerial torpedoes." Two of them, reputedly laid down at Archangel in 1942, may already be in commission; the other is reported to have been delayed by German bombing at Leningrad during...
...heat was also on in Finland. A Moscow propaganda barrage last week accused Finland of breaking her peace treaty with the Soviet Union. Leningrad-skaya Pravda ominously reminded the Finns that they had received their national independence from the Soviet Union in 1917, and that "further consolidation of their state sovereignty ... is possible only by carrying out a policy of sincere friendship with the Soviet Union." Added Leningradskaya Pravda: "The anti-popular activity of Finnish reactionaries is inspired by overseas reaction. Finland is within the orbit of the keen attention of Anglo-American imperialists who are hoping to draw...
...belongs to a different world ... As a novelist, I must be allowed to write from the point of view of the black square as well as of the white: doubt and even denial must be given their chance of self-expression, or how is one freer than the Leningrad group...
About 1930, on an impulse, he persuaded suspicious Soviet bureaucrats to part with six of the best canvases in the magnificent Hermitage collection in Leningrad (including Rubens' Portrait of Hellena Fourment, Rembrandt's Athena and Flemish Dierick Bouts's The Annunciation), thus opening the way for bids from more timid collectors and dealers...
...University or its representatives, and his schemes were seldom disguised or minimized. At various times he wanted to change the name of Harvard Square to Washington Square, he tried to ban several "Communist-tinged" student productions, and he introduced a council resolutions to have the words "Lenin" and "Leningrad" stricken from all printed matter in Cambridge...