Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...U.S.S.R., in the land of that knock, was to be another sort of day. From the marble tomb of Lenin and Stalin, in the shadow of the Kremlin walls, traditionally comes a dictator's propaganda of arms and marching men-with a rattle of rockets in the background...
Strategic Air Command. The U.S. mowed down in one day's U.N. Security Council debate the U.S.S.R.'s propaganda charges against "provocative" SAC flights over the Arctic (TIME, April 28), mustered up such a huge majority (possibly nine to one) that the U.S.S.R. withdrew the complaint. Then the U.S. called on the U.N. Security Council to reopen debate on the U.S. proposal, rejected by the U.S.S.R. last summer, for an Arctic "open skies" inspection zone...
...Russia's headlong Nikita Khrushchev had seemed incapable of putting a foot wrong. His ways might be crude, his methods clumsy, but his words had an engaging candor. He conceded nothing, but incessant Russian appeals for a summit meeting "to relax tensions" had thrown the West on the propaganda defensive. Unilateral Russian "renunciation" of nuclear tests-after the Russians had just completed a series of tests-enabled Khrushchev to pose as the world's leading advocate of disarmament. But just when everything seemed to be going so well for him, Nikita Khrushchev's foreign policy suddenly began...
...sitting on two seats,' that we are bowing and scraping before the imperialists in order to get some of their 'tainted goods.' How absurd that is! If we had such flexible spines, they would have bent in 1948 under the powerful pressure of the great propaganda machine turned on them by several countries." In an access of enthusiasm, the congress delegates broke into a song that rates high on the Belgrade Hit Parade. "The more lies, the more slanders," they sang, "the dearer Tito...
...would seriously jeopardize its fishing close to the coasts of Iceland, Norway and Greenland. Canada proposed a six-mile limit for national sovereignty, plus another six miles of exclusive fishing (a notion that horrified Britain). The Soviet Union, which has little at stake for itself in the issue, made propaganda hay by championing the smaller nations' twelve-mile proposals...