Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moscow's Pravda last week reported that in New England's factory towns the people could not find "meat, butter or even margarine" in the stores. This was the usual Pravda flimflam, but bedeviled Ezra Benson could almost wish it true. No end is in sight for the flow of surplus food stimulated by the Government's farm price support program...
Your "get McCarthy" diatribe sounds like Pravda on Trotsky. Such foaming at the mouth! With adjectives, yet! "Snarling," "whined," etc. Clear-eyed, noble liberals and the skulking, beastly villain, right out of stock. Like another Cato, your every issue croaks: "Delenda est McCarthy...
...find it slightly painful [that] Sean O'Casey . . . respects a political organization which has slain and tortured uncounted millions all over their world-with their "inexhaustible energy, the irresistible enthusiasm of their Socialist efforts" . . . O'Casey may be a "roguish wordmonger," but so was Goebbels and Pravda ... He is entertaining, but he is also bitter . . . There is too much of his "failing desires" to make him palatable to anyone who knows there...
...preposterous effect was of two moderate, reasonable men restraining the (equally) reprehensible acts of two obstreperous partners. Attlee himself seemed to regard this episode as showing how he stood up to the Communists, and Moscow's Pravda obligingly reacted a few days later by denouncing Attlee's unfortunate remarks after the Russians had shown him such a good time...
...Stassen argument assumes that the U.S. knows better than the Russians what the Russians really need. Tractors are taken off the embargo list on the ground that Russia produces a lot of them. But last week Moscow's Pravda was bitterly complaining that lagging Russian tractor production was grievously hurting the program of farm expansion. Every tractor shipped to Russia will help make up this lag and could also release Russian capacity for military tank construction...