Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Muddleheaded." After Erhard's departure, Lyndon Johnson continued with his peace offensive. In an exchange of New Year's greetings with Nikita Khrushchev, Johnson said: " 'Peace on earth, good will toward men' need not be an illusion; we can make it a reality. The time for simply talking about peace, however, has passed-1964 should be a year in which we take further steps toward that goal." Following up, he issued a statement expressing confidence that "we as a nation are fully alert to Communist tactics after 15 years of cold war," but it would...
...worried that another agreement with Walter Ulbricht's regime would only add one more fragment of legitimacy to his claim. Nor did it like the way East German newspapers and television were crowing about "three Germanys" and "the Free City of Berlin"-pet phrases of both Ulbricht and Nikita Khrushchev aimed at eroding Allied rights in Berlin. But whatever the Communists' motives, the holiday pass agreement clearly proved most erosive on their own side of the Wall. To East Berliners, who had been chafing in the gloom of empty shops and echoing streets, the sight of bright, gift...
Perhaps it was the cheerful afterglow of New Year's Eve, but suddenly last week everybody was talking about peace. No sooner did President Johnson, on his Texas ranch, pledge the U.S. to wage "an unrelenting peace offensive" (see THE NATION) than Nikita Khrushchev chimed in from Moscow with a similar idea...
Dean Rusk described the book as a "great break-through" and Nikita Khruschev said it would have "a significant effect on the lives of all peace-loving peoples...
That old farmer, Nikita Khrushchev, has lately learned that a lot of things have changed down on the farm since he broke the Russian soil behind a mare. To explain away the fact that Russia harvests less than the U.S., though it cultivates twice as much farm land, Khrushchev insists: "Yields don't depend upon the system. It's merely a matter of the U.S.'s producing more mineral fertilizer." Fertilizer, for so long the essential ingredient of barnyard humor, has become a vital factor in the economic cold war, and Khrushchev has launched a costly crash...