Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Succession. "Our country lives in exciting days," proclaimed the party newspaper Pravda last week. All over Russia, from the smallest rayon (precinct) to the capitals of the 16 republics which make up the U.S.S.R., party bosses were picking delegates for the big event. Daily, the press ran stories about Stakhanovite workers doubling and tripling their output in honor of the forthcoming congress. Moscow's Hotel Metropole set aside its entire second floor for the incoming delegates. But, as usual, the preparations were for the most part hidden in secrecy. Even the location of the hall in which...
...turn for the better. Last fortnight Kennan told reporters in Berlin that his stay in Moscow has been one of "icy cold" isolation, little different from the treatment he got in Nazi Germany back in 1941 when he was interned as an enemy diplomat. The U.S. Ambassador, snarled Pravda in reply last week, was an "ecstatic liar ... an enemy of the peace and [hence] of the Soviet Union...
...Pravda doesn't like it overmuch...
...World Review is not even on the Attorney General's list of subversive magazines, and anyone can subscribe to it through the mail. As a matter of fact, anyone who wants this magazine must tell the librarian why. But even if New World Review were an English translation of Pravda, there should be no argument about its place in a public library. People deserve the right, if they wish it, to see both sides of any argument, even if one is all black. They also have the right to know what their enemies are saying about them...
Another Young Communist publication, the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, belabored the Soviet Olympic squad for its performance at Helsinki though it racked up an unofficial point score second only to the U.S. score. But that was not good enough, said Komsomolskaya Pravda. As a matter of fact, both trainers and athletes fell down on the job. Because of their trainer's incompetence, the sprinters were sadly out of condition. The tactical preparation of the distance runners was "primitive." Item: two marathoners "overestimated their strength and did not show the necessary will to victory...