Word: nikolai
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...Yumashev, made Russia's top sea dog last year when Stalin set up his Red navy as an independent branch of the Russian armed services, last week was out of a job. Reported Moscow: at 56, he "was released from duty at his own request." His successor: Admiral Nikolai Kuznetsov...
...Major General Nikolai Kechedzhi, age not given, "military specialist" attached to the Soviet navy...
Died. Titus Kammerer, 86, Swiss shoemaker who unwittingly harbored one of history's most famous exiles; after long illness; in Zurich. During the years 1916-17, he rented two rooms to a quiet, stay-at-home tenant who always promptly paid the rent. The tenant: Nikolai Lenin...
What No Horsewhips? But the new note could not be sustained; the cast soon slipped back into the well-worn groove The Metropolitan Nikolai of Krutitsy and Kolomna, who for many years has been rendering to commissars the things that are God's, described how Simon Legree (the Americans) behave in Korea. Impressive in a black robe and white headdress, the Metropolitan told his hearers that U.S. soldiers had killed from 200,000 to 400,000 Korean civilians. He even told how they did it: "They force wet leathers on their victims. These jackets get tight when they...
...homily than information useful to foreigners. But patience is usually rewarded. Vishniak, for instance, noted one day that Pravda had expanded from four pages to six. The extra two pages, he soon found out, were devoted to a learned controversy over a system of philology founded by the late Nikolai...