Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pomp of ancient Rome or the jeweled brilliance of the great courts of France could shadow the moment; the eye of history could scarcely encompass the spectacle of so many potentates, Presidents and dictators. There sat Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, his pink skull fringed with white, his face now frozen as a death mask, now galvanized into full-muscled motion. Behind him, rust-haired Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia posed self-assured and well fed. Scattered across the green-carpeted room, the members of the satellite pack waited with dull docility, their reflexes string-tied to the master puppeteer: Rumania...
...members enlarged to 22 the number of African members of the U.N., upsetting all previous power alignments in the Assembly. Africa is something new, something unpredictable. That is why Nikita Khrushchev, with his imperious call to his Communist bloc to join him at the meeting, had journeyed to New York. That is why so many of the world leaders tagged along behind him. And that is why the President of the U.S., in the final four months of his power, put the prestige of his nation and the free world to the test in one of contemporary history...
...about, while untold numbers of plainclothesmen mingled in the restive crowds on the perimeter. On Khrushchev's first night in town, knots of Hungarian and Polish refugees gathered with banners that screamed KHRUSHCHEV IS A MURDERER, KHRUSHCHEV, GO HOME, and handed out pamphlets with such arresting titles as Nikita, Scat, You Dirty Aggressor, You Bloodstained Butcher, You Bestial Executioner, Scat. Cries of "Butcher!" and "Murderer!" rattled the accustomed tranquillity of Park Avenue...
Boos at the Plaza. Then everybody got set for Nikita Khrushchev's rebuttal next day. By now it was clear that no mere recital of the oft-told Soviet line would be enough to recapture all the lost ground. Khrushchev's own description of Ike's speech as "conciliatory" suggested that Khrushchev was eager to begin negotiating again. That night, instead of closeting himself with his advisers, Khrushchev resumed his favorite role of informal comic and propagandist. Flanked by his ever-present army of security guards, he rolled up to the staid Plaza Hotel to attend...
Preceding Ike to the U.N. headquarters was Nikita Khrushchev himself. He bounced merrily into the lobby of the Assembly building and found Yugoslavia's Tito waiting, as if by prearrangement. There the two old enemies made their first formal greetings since September 1956, but it was obvious that both were ill at ease. "How do you spend your time here?" Tito began tentatively. Answered K.: "I have a little balcony. I go out and walk back and forth and take...