Word: moskva
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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However lustily it is beaten back with proletarian hammer & sickle, bourgeois human nature will out. Recently, in an eloquent letter to the editor of Moscow's folksy evening daily, Vechernyaya? Moskva, crusading Lieut. Colonel V. Kotko self-righteously attacked one aspect of this un-Marxian state of affairs-tipping...
...Molotov Square." Some time later the policeman, crossing a bridge over the Danube, saw the peasant staring morosely into the water. "You don't seem to have followed my directions," the policeman remarked. "Not yet," said the peasant; "I was just standing here thinking how big the Moskva has become at Budapest...
Konspiratsia. At 11 p.m. the night of June 13, wrote Bigart, there was a knock at the door of his room in Belgrade's Hotel Moskva. "A young man of perhaps 20 ... pushed past me ... fell into a chair . . . 'Comrade,' he began, 'you had planned to return to Athens via Rome. Instead you will go via free Greece and interview General Markos. Is that agreeable?' Very tentatively, I said...
...Marxist" is the word that divides the world. In the lands drained by the Sava, the Bug, the Moskva, the Dnieper, the Don, the Volga, the Yenisei and the Amur, a man who wishes to express approval-of a painting, a factory production record or a military operation-is likely to call it "Marxist." In the lands drained by the St. Lawrence, the Mississippi, the Orinoco, the Amazon, the Tagus, the Thames and the Clyde, a man who wishes to express disapproval-of a painting, a production record or a military operation-is likely to call it "Marxist...
...wanted Kuchko's wife. Long-Arm seized Kuchko's domains, threw a bang-up banquet on what later became Kremlin hill, and decided that this spot-with its roads and rivers crossing in all directions -would be a good place for a town. He called it Moskva after the river...