Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite his best efforts, Nikita's essential boorishness occasionally broke through: to the proud director of a vast irrigation project in the Camargue, he remarked that Russia had a far vaster project in Tadzhikistan. And the apparent popular enthusiasm that greeted him wherever he turned was largely synthetic...
...world's most belligerent peace lover, and loud public opponent of all nuclear testing, could Nikita avoid denouncing France in strong terms? The answer came clear when, after a bacon-and-eggs breakfast, Khrushchev encountered De Gaulle in Rambouillet's 16th century Hall of Marble. "Hurrah for France!" cried Nikita...
...from Agitprop. This was the keynote of the second half of Khrushchev's tour de France. At times, Nikita seemed intent on establishing himself as a kind of honorary Frenchman. His family helped. Motherly Nina Khrushchev admired acres of stained-glass windows, trudged through an open-air market where she expertly sniffed at a proffered melon...
Daughters Rada, Elena and Julia ogled the spring fashions at Dior's. Nikita himself genially traded stag jokes with French influentials, beamingly invited a handsome girl folk dancer to visit him in Moscow, and clutched to his bosom everything from lambs to schoolchildren. And during a flight in one of France's handsome jet Caravelles, which he vocally admired, he set the hearts of French industrialists aflutter with the offhand statement: "I'll take a dozen to start with...
...Izvestia Editor) Alexei Adzhubei admiringly remarked to Soviet Propaganda Boss Leonid Ilyichev: "Comrade, you always handle the Agitprop well!" Spiking the Canon. Clicking away insatiably, Soviet cameramen captured scenes of enthusiasm designed to convince movie audiences behind the Iron Curtain that all France had embraced Nikita...