Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Communist officialdom blamed disastrous droughts and freezes for the poor harvest. But Nikita Khrushchev angrily blamed sloppy management for chronic agricultural crises. U.S. farmers, said Nikita, protect their fertilizer in plastic bags, but in Russia the piles of mineral fertilizer shipped out from factories are allowed to lie around in heaps, exposed to the weather. In winter, snorted Nikita, kids slide down the piles on their sleds. Making another of his Utopian promises to catch up with U.S. production, Khrushchev also said that by 1965 Russia hoped to turn out 35 million tons of fertilizer. Though this would equal...
...written about any of the Kennedys, tied loosely together by Lasky's own biased and bitter generalizations. It presents, with equal weight, criticism from the Chicago Tribune and the New Republic, from Westbrook Pegler and Eleanor Roosevelt, from the New York Times and Variety, from Walter Lippmann and Nikita Khrushchev...
...Russians apparently need wheat to make up for crop shortages, both in the Ukraine, suffering from scorching drought, and in Nikita Khrushchev's ambitious "virgin-lands" development scheme in Soviet Asia. Canadian Agriculture Minister Harry Hays returned from an 18-day trip behind the Iron Curtain to report that Russians insistently asked what Canadians did about drought and dust. On his recent Russian journey, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman went through the Ukraine but was permitted to travel only to the fringe of the virgin-lands...
...somewhat enigmatic ruler of Red China, has certainly been flailing in all directions with his hammer of late, but nothing much has been destroyed. Even Nikita Khrushchev, Mao's most recent target, has emerged unscathed from Peking's incessant blows. The only thing Mao has done with his paper hammer is to fan new hatreds for himself and his Red regime...
Kindly Pope John then took Adzhubei and his wife Rada on a brief tour of the papal apartments, explained the meaning of his tapestries and paintings. He asked Rada to tell him the names of her children (Nikita, Aleksei and Ivan) because "the names of children acquire a special sound from the lips of their own mothers." John gave Rada a rosary because it reminded him "of the prayer my mother used to recite by the fire when...