Word: olga
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Olga ((Lanina, one of Gorbachev's secretaries)) and I came back to work after lunch at Yuzhny at about 4 p.m. As usual, two police cars stood at the entrance, and a barbed-wire strip was stretched across the road. They moved it aside a little for us to pass...
...There's more work now," said Olga P. Santos, who works in the Harvard Union dining hall. "With the new set-up we're always rushing to get out of here on time...
...When Olga Labus went to work last week at Communist Party headquarters in the Russian town of Pushkino, 20 miles from Moscow, she found the doors locked. The plaque identifying the building had been pried off the wall, and the flag stand next to the door was empty. By order of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who a few days before had been the world's top communist, Labus and tens of thousands of people like her across the Soviet Union were...
When Oleg's successor Igor was killed in battle by a tribe known as the Drevlianians, his widow Olga took over in 945 and reigned for the next 17 years, thus becoming the first celebrated Russian woman. When the Drevlianian prince proposed that she marry him, she asked him to send envoys to bring her to him by boat; she then had the envoys and their boat flung into a pit, where they were buried alive. She next asked that the Drevlianians send their leading men to provide an escort, then offered them a bath, locked them in the bathhouse...
...mustache bring to mind a small, playful walrus, Havel still has a touch of the patrician. He is accustomed to center stage and rarely brooks disagreement, even from friends. His marriage has endured a quarter-century and produced one of the century's most touching prison volumes, Letters to Olga, but friends say Havel can be as overbearing to her as to anyone else -- which is very overbearing indeed. If Havel is the embodiment of moral rectitude to his nation, that is even more strongly the way he sees himself. His true passion is not for possessions or power...