Word: russian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intelligence services of Western nations were certain that Russia, although it had the larger ground force, would be militarily much weaker than an armed U.S. The Russians have not got the atomic bomb. The Russian economic machine has made no recent important strides on the very long way it would have to go to approach equality with the U.S. Nevertheless, Russia s defensive capacity is impressive. If attacked, Russia would defend itself stubbornly...
...will fight against a Russian military advance almost anywhere, including Berlin, beyond the area now Soviet-controlled. (Highly probable...
...would be much slower to react militarily against Russian political gains. (Highly probable...
...past year the Journal ran the Stimson memoirs, the Stilwell diary, the Robert Capa-John Steinbeck Russian essay, a presidential series by Roger Butterfield, articles on bad housing, "The Alcoholic and His Women," and "Why Do Women Cry." By male tastes (which do not matter to the Journal), its "problem" fiction is below the standard of its articles -but it is not for want of hunting for new authors or problems. The Journal took twelve first stories (at a minimum of $750) by budding writers. Its fiction, food and architecture displays are decorated with wide-open, four-color layouts that...
...comes from an old-fashioned Italian family, poor to begin with, but proud of each other and extremely close-knit. His parents, who had come from Isola delle Femmine, an islet off the coast of Sicily, had a ground-floor flat on Taylor Street, on the slope of Russian Hill. Joe was the eighth of nine children...