Word: moskva
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citadels. But history sums up Moscow's 800 years not by telling of the peoples anonymous pageant, but by chronicling the rise of their rulers. The pageant started with a hermit called Bukal who lived in the midst of a thick morass by the banks of the Moskva River, where the Kremlin stands today...
Like the other 35 U.S. special correspondents at the Moscow Conference, dark little Joseph Newman put up at the fancy Hotel Moskva. Last week he moved into the drab Metropole, where most of the permanent correspondents live. Newman is going to stay as the New York Herald Tribune...
Best of all, of course, was the vacation from censorship. On conference copy (as the Russians had promised) there was no censorship at all-and some of the stories sent out were fairly rude to the hosts. A special teleprinter was set up at the Moskva, and some stories cleared to the U.S. in only two hours, instead of the usual seven or eight. A New York Times correspondent tested the new freedom with a wisecrack: "Russian hospitality has seen to it that Moscow is cleaned up like a Dutch kitchen-or as some cynics say, like a Potemkin village...
Moscow kept its promise to the visiting press-and added a few unexpected trimmings. U.S. and British newsmen got preferred rooms in the Hotel Moskva, which normally houses the "classless society's" technical, artistic and political elite. The Soviet elite doubled up with friends around town so that Moscow could put on the dog for correspondents at the Conference of Foreign Ministers...
...Moskva there was a dial telephone and hot water in every room (the hot water began on the same day as the conference), English-speaking employees on every floor. A special book of meal tickets entitled each visitor to excellent, inexpensive food (waiters in the Moskva's dining room were surprised to see how British newsmen, rationed at home, stuffed themselves). Everything was so good for the visiting newsmen that Moscow's seven U.S. regulars put in a bid for special restaurant privileges too-and got them in six hours, a bureaucratic record...