Word: russian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broad peasant face. She hurried up the street, glancing apprehensively at the crowd before her house. None of the neighbors spoke to her. Edward A. Morrow of the New York Times, who happened to be on the scene, walked up to her and asked: "Were you expecting a Russian officer...
...Here he comes again!" Children who had been playing down the street raised the cry. "Here he comes again!" The Russian lieutenant reappeared. He saw the Americans gathered near his motorcycle, and slipped back out of sight. One block away, in a tree-lined sidestreet, Morrow caught up with him. The lieutenant was now accompanied by a Russian private, whose Tommy gun he carried. Morrow said (in Polish, which the Russian understood): "I am unarmed. I want to find out what's happening here...
...joking!" said the Russian. "All I want is my motorcycle...
...Russian's face turned red. "Oh, that woman!" he shouted. "All this trouble for a woman who is not even home! I thought the Americans wanted to capture me. I just fired in the air to scare them...
Afternoon of Fun. At this point Lieut. Colonel Thomas Lancer, U.S. provost marshal in Berlin, arrived in an olive drab staff car. "Now tell me what has happened here," Lancer told the Russian through an interpreter...