Word: polese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Not until the very end of the turgid sessions did Comrade Gomulka uncork his surprise: he had edged 14 of his most bitter enemies off the important 75-member Central Committee. These were the hardcore, Moscow-First group who had tried to keep Gomulka out of office in the first...
In putting down the Moscow-First crowd, Gomulka gave no encouragement to those Poles who urge more and more freedom, more and more separation from Russia. Denouncing the "intellectual nonsense of political romanticists," he faithfully echoed all the claptrap of Russian foreign policy. But this orthodoxy gave him Moscow'...
Physicist Libby, who is planning to retire from the AEC in June after 4½ years of service, noted a new theory, put forward by Physicist E. A. Martell of the Air Force's Cambridge, Mass. research center, that radioactive debris from nuclear explosions near the poles drifts down...
¶ In Warsaw, Erich Koch, former Gauleiter of East Prussia and Hitler's Reichskommissar in occupied Ukraine, stood accused of responsibility or complicity in the gas-chamber and concentration-camp deaths of 4,000,000 Russians, 160,000 Jews and 72,000 Poles. After nearly a decade in prison...
Getting in the victims as well as the victors to write the German peace had a plausible sound, but it was also part of the Russian tactics to contest the West's legal right to be in Berlin, as conquerors, until a peace treaty is concluded. Khrushchev was also...