Word: nicolai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first, most of his listeners strained to hear. Then some of those out of range resumed their interrupted conversations, while others, in range, stared across their food & drink in joyless apathy. When Artie picked up his clarinet for a solo, his fans perked up; but out came Nicolai Berezowsky's concerto, and interest palled. Then flashbulbs began to pop; first-night celebrities queued up to have their pictures taken with new Cinemactor Kirk (Champion) Douglas...
...Soviet State Publishing House put out Volume One of a projected Big Soviet Encyclopedia. Its title page listed Shmidt as chief of a 14-man board of editors made up entirely of Old Bolsheviks; Karl Radek and Nicolai Bukharin were among them. As years passed, and volume followed volume to the presses, purge followed purge. Radek was imprisoned, Bukharin shot, and one by one the names on Volume One's title page disappeared in Stalin's great liquidation. By 1938, when the purge was hottest and Volume 37 appeared, Shmidt alone was left; he kept cool and smiling...
...Alexandrovitch Zhukov, first & only Soviet Ambassador to Chile, the Carrera is where he came in; he stayed there when he arrived in April 1946. Now that Chile has broken with the U.S.S.R., Zhukov and his staff are ready to go home (TIME, Nov. 3). Every day Embassy First Secretary Nicolai Voronin trots a block to the Foreign Office to get permission to leave. Chile's answer: "All arrangements for leaving Moscow by the entire Chilean group must first be completed...
...Russians, whom he accused of diverting UNRRA supplies in Austria to Red occupation armies. The council sustained his indignation, 21-to-6, instructed its policy committee to debate the matter. The committee debated, but, due to Russian Delegate Nicolai Feonov's expert obstruction, took no action...
...system. The fourth was a political ring under Peter G. Goussarov, who rated as a second secretary in the Embassy; the evidence showed that he had "authority . . . on the level of an ambassador." The fifth and most active unit was the Military Intelligence network bossed by Colonel Nicolai Zabotin (TIME, March 11). Canada's Communist (Labor Progressive) party furnished the rings with recruits. Their pay was small, usually only $30 to $100 for a piece of information...