Word: moskva
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...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...
...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...
...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...
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...