Word: moskva
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feet he and his navigator, husky, thin-haired Major Mikhail Gordienko, were using oxygen. Doggedly Hero Kokkinaki held his red ship, the Moskva, on its course. Near sundown, with no sight of sky or sea, his radio was frying with static like a pan of pork chops. Hopelessly lost, he turned Moskva back on its course. Finally with little more than two hours' fuel in the tanks, with oxygen running low, he fainted. Gordienko took over...
...long letdown. Moskva finally broke out over a small island. For 45 minutes, wide-mouthed Gordienko circled, looking for a good field. There was none. As night fell he took the best he could find. With wheels up, Moskva porpoised off a knoll, slammed down on her belly just beyond. Kokkinaki came to as the ship shuddered to a stop...
...missed when he deferred his trip to Angora (TIME, Nov. 6) by a sumptuous banquet in his honor. Footmen in red livery and gold buttons served caviar and champagne, there were crimson roses on the dinner table to honor the Soviet visitors, the turkey was called "Dindoneau a la Moskva" and Mmes Borah and Pittman, whose Senator husbands were respectively out of town and ill, attended...
...Soviet anti-religious climaxes to date came, last week, the dynamiting and flinging into the River Moskva of the Simonov Monastery with its 400-ft. bell tower...
...good St. Sergius began what was now ended. Pouncing with zeal on the debris, each of the 5,000 Comrades picked up as big a chunk of stone as he could carry, ran panting and puffing with it as fast as he could to the brink of the wimpling Moskva, plumped his burden in, watched exultingly while it sanka fitting deathday tribute to LENIN...