Word: provinciale
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Our architectural consultant, a cheerful young provincial from Chillicothe, Ohio, went from door to door asking astonished Sioux mothers whether they--preferred gas stoves to electric stoves; whether they liked bunk-beds; whether the children could use a "mud room" for their boots and galoshes. The poor fellow seldom received...
It was a short-lived decision. When the government of Tory Prime Minister Joe Clark fell soon thereafter, the phoenix-like Trudeau was back in power again. In short order he defeated efforts by Quebec Premier René Lévesque to win a referendum on negotiations toward independence for...
The casual reference to Chernenko's daughter is all that is known about her to this day. Somewhat more information is circulating about the rest of his family, although it is hard to know how much is fact and how much is the work of Soviet mythmakers. The name of...
Chernenko's early attempts to establish himself as a writer on ideological subjects were hampered by his lack of erudition. It is said that Mikhail Suslov, the party's chief ideologue in the post-Stalin period, had a poor opinion of Chernenko's abilities and was reluctant to let him...
Andropov's time in power may have been marked by failures at home and abroad, but important, if measured, steps were taken to overhaul and rejuvenate the gerontocratic party machine. Brezhnev holdovers who hoped to retain cherished sinecures at the middle and lower levels of the bureaucracy found their...