Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reasons of his own, Nikita Khrushchev chose to make a spectacular out of the U-2 incident (see FOREIGN NEWS). In Washington, there were some calls for a congressional investigation, and in both the U.S. and Britain some fears were expressed that the U.S., by risking the U-2 flight "at this time," had risked prospects for "agreements" at the summit. But if the shooting down of the U-2 dimmed summit prospects, they could not have been very bright beforehand...
Perhaps they were never very bright. President Eisenhower, Secretary of State Herter and Under Secretary of State Dillon have all made it clear in recent weeks that the U.S. will go to the summit determined to hold fast to its rights in Berlin, and Nikita Khrushchev has shown in tough-toned speeches that the U.S. firmness has undercut his hopes of making any headway at the summit...
Cloak & Dagger. But Pilot Powers had bad luck: he got caught, and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev says that he talked. Thus Khrushchev had the chance to tell the world about the U2's mission last week-with all the embellishment and distortion that best suited his case...
...funds for Project Vela, a program of research on detection of underground nuclear tests-and Vela would include, "where necessary, nuclear explosions." Largely because of the awkward timing, the word buzzed far and wide that the President, in reaction to the shooting down of the U-2 and Nikita Khrushchev's tough talk, had decided to resume nuclear tests-suspended in October 1958-as a measure of national preparedness...
...Inside, the 1,378 members of what passes for the Soviet Union's parliament sat tense and expectant at long rows of neat desks. Diplomats, newsmen, and a delegation from Ghana stared down from packed galleries. At the tribune hunched the familiar, round, shiny-pated figure of Nikita Khrushchev. His voice was strident and bitter. Gone was the bland old bluster about "peace and friendship," as the Soviet boss, in we-will-bury-you language, denounced the U.S. for sending a plane over Russia (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) in "an aggressive provocation aimed at wrecking the summit conference...