Word: petrovich
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...have their cultural aspects. For centuries, they have been used as entertainers in flea circuses. In Goethe's Faust, Mephistopheles sings of "a king, A lovely queen had he-But dearer far than queen or son. He loved a big black flea. . . ." Upon this item Russian Composer Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky based his Song of the Flea...
...told neighbors that her husband had been a criminal and was hiding out. But Ivan Kudrin, a police inspector in the tradition of Dostoevsky's Porfiry Petrovich, became suspicious. He learned that Udod had no criminal record, but that Serafima's family had. The paint job, too, interested him. Kudrin dug around Serafima's cellar and found Udod's body...
Died. Vladimir Petrovich Potemkin (pronounced pot-yom-kin), 68, former U.S.S.R. Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs, whose tactful, pactful diplomacy was largely responsible for treaties with Italy (1933) and France (1935); after long illness; in Moscow. A revolution-minded mathematics teacher in Tsarist days, amiable polyglot (septilingual) Potemkin championed collective security, was Maxim Litvinoffs longtime right-hand...
...told his story coldly. Weak-chinned, pompadoured Reinhard Retslow, 36, an agent of the Secret Field Police, was bored, contemptuous. Lieut. Hans Ritz, 24, was a small man with a caved-in chest, a gnome-like bald head and an infantile expression. The fourth defendant, Mikhail Petrovich Bulanov, was a Russian who had hired himself out as a chauffeur of a Nazi death van; beneath close-drawn eyebrows his eyes peered sharply at the court as the tribunal secretary read the four men's confessions. Their crimes ranged from rubber truncheon beatings to participation in mass executions...
...They know that the creeping locust hordes have actually slushed trucks and even trains to a stop with the muck of their billion-bodied mass. One mass of locusts crossing the Red Sea covered an area of 2,000 sq. mi. Said Britain's Russian-born entomologist, Boris Petrovich Uvarov, locust-control authority and a chief organizer of the new campaign: "The world suffers 15,000,000 Ib. worth of crop losses yearly through locusts-in other words, man yearly grows 15,000,000 Ib. of crops to feed locusts. . . . Since they know no boundaries and require no passports...