Word: omsk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been divided into distinct families labeled "A" and "B"; they crop up around the world in a variety of guises, e.g., Japanese "B" in eastern Asia; Murray Valley Fever in Australia; Mayaro and Ilheus in South and Central America; dengue in India and the West Indies; Chikungunya in Africa; Omsk hemorrhagic fever in Russia. Only a few of the forms circulate widely, even fewer represent great danger to human life. The virulent Japanese "B" variety has been spread across Asia by migrating herons, sometimes affects thousands in a summer. Some 2,800 died in Japan and Korea last year; another...
Russia's underworked consumers'-goods advertising agency, a sort of low-pressure B.B.D. & Omsk, got a new product to talk about last week. Over Radio Moscow floated the words of a U.S. style commercial: "A new limousine, the Volga, has been built at the Molotov Gorky Motor Works . . . The new car has an unusually broad windshield and a number of gadgets including a clock on the dashboard, a radio and a heater. Everything is well designed and of excellent workmanship . . . far surpasses the Pobeda in elegance of lines and finish and is much roomier. For long-distance travel...
...danger was that the monolithic Communist façade would be taken for the Communist reality. Everybody knows the strains and weaknesses of France, the indecisions and diversions in Washington: everybody hears of injustice in a county seat. But who was falsely accused last week in Omsk (pop. 281,000)? What scandals could the newspapers print, if they dared, in Shenyang (nee Mukden)? Over one-fourth the earth's surface was dark silence, broken only by the persistent loudspeaker proclaiming the solidarity and monolithic will of the leadership. But if the solidarity was there, it need not be proclaimed...
...Tito's first wife was a Russian girl whom he met while in Omsk during the Russian civil war. She was loath to return with him to Yugoslavia, finally consented, only to leave him ten years later (in 1929) when he refused to settle down and give up his revolutionary activities. She is said to have died in Russia some time in the late '30s. The second wife, Herta, whom Tito married in 1939, was taken prisoner four years later by Yugoslavia's pro-Nazi quisling government. Tito, head of the Partisan government in the mountains, bailed...
When operating in the Navy's Lockheed P2V-4 Neptune, the "18s" should enable the long-range patrol bomber to fly around the world at the 55th parallel (latitude of Belfast and Omsk) without refueling...