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Word: moskva (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state in the East bloc, Bulgaria is considered to be the only truly "safe" vacationland for Soviet and East German citizens, who are rarely allowed to travel to the West. At the Golden Sands and other Black Sea resorts, these tourists are kept segregated in hotels with names like Moskva and Berlin. But such isolation has proved ineffective, partly because hotels for Easterners and Westerners are often identical. One night this summer, an English tourist, shnoggered on the delicious and potent local slivova, meandered into the wrong hotel, opened the door of room 220 with his own key and flopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Luring the Capitalists Eastward | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

...cross-country skiing. The two-day weekend also means more time for old-fashioned hobbies such as stamp collecting and chess. Televised soccer and hockey games are popular, and a few privileged children have even taken up gocart racing. Winter and summer, Muscovites splash in the open-air Moskva swimming pool built on the site of a prerevolutionary cathedral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Discovering the Weekend in Russia | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...collecting trawlers, the Russians added an entirely new kind of vessel on the face of the oceans-a multipurpose, missile-firing helicopter carrier. The Russians so far have built no Western-style aircraft carriers because they consider them vulnerable to missile attack. In stead, into the Mediterranean glided the Moskva, a sleek 25,000-ton vessel that combines the features of a cruiser and a carrier. The craft has four pads marked with red and white bull's-eyes on her 100-yd. flight deck for launching up to 30 helicopters of the Hormone type used in antisubmarine warfare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: NEW REALITY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

...Jane's semantics-and Soviet intention. There is no doubt that the Soviet fleet has an offensive capability and has been considerably stretching the concept of strategic defense. Soviet submarines appeared in the Indian Ocean for the first time last winter, and only last week the helicopter carrier Moskva turned up in the Mediterranean. That, declared U.S. Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, Chief of Naval Operations, is "visible evidence of Russia's announced intention to be come a modern major offensive sea power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armaments: Jane's Defensive Ships | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...program, entitled Khrushchev in Exile-His Opinions and Revelations, consists of films of the ex-Premier during and prior to his reign. The remaining third is made up of taped interviews and movies-mostly in color -made recently on his seven-acre dacha, Petrovo Dalneye, on the Moskva River, 18 miles west of Moscow. U.S. viewers will see Nikita Sergeevich building small bonfires (a hobby), romping with his grandchildren, playing with his pet Alsatian, munching grapes on the front porch, peering through binoculars over walls that separate him from the rest of the world, dining with his wife Nina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadcasting: Senior Citizen Khrushchev | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

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