Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moral was highly pertinent: kindly Nikita Khrushchev, again wrapping himself in Lenin's magic mantle, was justifying the relatively lenient treatment meted out to his own defeated rivals-former Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, ex-Premier Georgy Malenkov-who faced only obscurity, not firing squads...
...Kremlin than to Memorial Church. Shortly after accepting President Truman's call to return from China (where he had been ambassador) and become Secretary of State, Marshall led the American delegation to the Moscow Foreign Ministers' Conference in April 1947. After a fruitless meeting with Stalin and Molotov in private, Marshall was convinced that the Soviet Union was stalling in European recovery action, that Europe needed help fast, and that only the West could and would provide that help. Piecemeal aid to Greece and Turkey--the "Truman Doctrine" of 1946-7--not only failed to help Europe as a whole...
Oiled Streets. Ten thousand troops swarmed into Bab-el-Oued, and for the first time, a pitched battle was waged between the army and the S.A.O. The pieds-noirs fought stubbornly, hurling Molotov cocktails from apartment windows, aiming bazookas from the railings of balconies, taking potshots from behind rooftop pillboxes. Oil and soapy water were spread on the streets to spin the wheels of army vehicles. Soldiers advanced from doorway to doorway, crouched to fire from behind trash cans filled with uncollected garbage...
...explaining the need for inspection and verification to Russia's Andrei Gromyko. "After all," said Lord Home, "one never knows what has happened when you read the seismograph signals. It might be an earthquake, or it could be a bomb, or it could be Mr. Molotov falling downstairs." Gromyko stared gravely at Home for a long moment, then replied: "Mr. Molotov is not fissionable material...
Subversive CIA. In all the clubs, Molotov has been boffo lately. The Washington Premise last week presented a scene in which the Czechoslovakian ambassador to Moscow rushes into Khrushchev's office saying "I bring you condolences on behalf of the entire Czechoslovakian embassy on the death of Mr. Molotov in the automobile accident this morning." Says Khrush: "Thanks, but it's tomorrow morning." In Manhattan and Chicago, other Khrushchevs were being asked (by participating audiences) the whereabouts of Molotov. Says Manhattan's Khrush: "Mr. Molotov is on vacation-he is neither here nor there...