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Word: nyet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eight times Khrushchev had the boat stopped so that he and Nixon could talk to groups of bathers on the beaches along the river, and each time, with broken-record repetition, the same thing happened. Khrushchev would point out the bathers to Nixon as "captive people"; they would yell "nyet, nyet," and Khrushchev would grin, nudge Nixon and say: "Here are your captive people. Just look how happy they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Better to See Once | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...Meaning of Nyet. As they gloomily dispersed, Western diplomats found consolation in the unity that they had shown at Geneva and in the fact that they had made no substantial concessions to Moscow. This claim, as far as it went, was true: the Western powers had not compromised their legal or physical position in West Berlin, and though they had been shouldered dangerously close to de facto recognition of Communist East Germany, they had clung to their refusal to grant formal diplomatic recognition to the East Germans. But none of this altered the fact that as the weeks went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GENEVA: Time to Go Home | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Time after time, U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter and his colleagues had refused to believe that nyet means "no." Until the very last moment, their reaction to every Russian rejection of their proposals had been to fish out another minor concession or two with which to tempt Gromyko. Result was that by last week's recess, they had exhausted all the painless compromises the West had to offer, while Gromyko had barely begun to unwrap his stony-eyed alternatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GENEVA: Time to Go Home | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...Geneva's "Batiment Electoral." Landing in Geneva, Gromyko made a pithy statement specifically prepared to make pithy headlines. After that, in his dealings with the press, Gromyko set out to prove himself an amiable man of peace, erase the image of the sullen spokesman who so often barked nyet at the U.N. Security Council. While the Western foreign ministers tended to duck out of range, Gromyko smilingly posed for photographers, even agreed to chat with the New York Times's James ("Scotty") Reston and A. M. Rosenthal when they showed up unannounced at his villa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pitchmanship at Geneva | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...week on a practical first step toward easing the strains of cold war: it proposed an international inspection system in the Arctic to provide protection against surprise attack. But in the center of that same stage, under the same glare of floodlights, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics said nyet (see FOREIGN NEWS)-and proved beyond any last lingering doubt that it is more interested in the propaganda of peace than in the reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Frightening Significance' | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

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