Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sharp reply to Syracuse University's Catholic chaplain, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, said yesterday that the priest practiced methods "reminiscent of Molotov...
Stalin led the way, and after "many passages and rooms" and some distance in the open air, they got to his rooms, "of moderate size, simple, dignified, and four in number." In the midst of "uncorking various bottles," Stalin got an idea: How about getting Molotov to come over? Said he: "There is one thing about Molotov-he can drink...
...Churchill vividly describes things in The Hinge of Fate, Volume IV of his massive history, The Second World War, it was quite a party. It lasted from 8:30 that evening until 2:30 a.m., with a fagged and humorless Molotov patiently enduring the humor of the other two. When Churchill, with a twinkle, accused Molotov of delaying his return from the U.S. so that he could shake his NKVD guards and have a visit on the town in Manhattan, Molotov turned, Churchill thought, "rather serious." Stalin played it for a laugh: "It was not to New York he went...
...brightly colored posters extolling the military and civil virtues of the Soviet Union. In every section of the city (pop. 300,000), Russian-trained Korean agitators hammered home the same ideas from soapboxes and sound trucks. Within a few days Pyongyang's Peony Point Park had been named Molotov Park, the Taedong River had become the Lenin River, and Bell Road, the city's main thoroughfare, had been renamed Stalin Street...
...erupted in a blaze of gunfire all over the island. Seventy Nationalists seized the town of Jayuya, killing four policemen, firing the post office, police station, Selective Service headquarters and 20 homes. In Ponce, Mayaguez, Utuado, half a dozen other towns, Nationalists attacked police stations with small arms and Molotov cocktails...