Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pentagon, some Air Force officers worry about the service turning into "a field artillery outfit." While some 90% of U.S. nuclear striking power is still borne by manned bombers, Minuteman will soon change all that. If this bothers some of the officers who fly, it undoubtedly troubles Nikita Khrushchev much more...
...What sort of smear is this?" gasped Nikita Khrushchev as he strolled past rows of abstract paintings in a Moscow art gallery last week. "You cannot figure out whether they were painted by human hands or daubed by a donkey's tail!" With these words, the Kremlin's ruler doused hopes of Soviet painters that a new liberal era of artistic freedom was under way in Russia...
...Macaroni, the ponies, graze contentedly on the lush grass. Caroline's Welsh terrier, Charlie, skitters happily around the place, and in nice weather lives in a house under the magnolia tree that Andy Jackson planted near the back door. Pushinka, a pooch who came as a present from Nikita Khrushchev, has had a hard time of it: he had a nervous breakdown, was shipped off to Walter Reed Hospital for treatment, but is back now. and is apparently hale and hearty...
...Checkpoint Charlie in divided Berlin, where U.S. and Soviet tanks once faced off at point-blank range, Communist border guards last week erected Christmas trees. It was as paradoxical a symbol as any to mark the fourth anniversary of Nikita Khrushchev's bold threat to force the West out of the city and sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany...
...Nikita Khrushchev remembered it last week, Stalin warned his colleagues: "If I die, you will all perish; the imperialists will strangle you." But, added Khrushchev with somewhat muted optimism, "We aren't dead; we are living and working and even pressing on imperialism...