Word: russian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wallaceites, Communists, fellow travelers and troubled innocents-clumped determinedly two blocks east to the huge Roxy Theater. They lugged picket signs and clutched bundles of leaflets, which had been prepared in advance. They were out to boo the opening of The Iron Curtain, the anti-Soviet propaganda story* of Russian atom spies in Canada. (TIME...
...appeasement? The U.S. had not told any of its friends what it was doing; some Western European diplomats felt as though a vague but vast doublecross was going on over their heads. One Paris theory: that the U.S. would withdraw support from Western Union in exchange for a Russian promise to muzzle Communist parties outside Russia and the satellite states. The other, more widespread-guess among Europe's startled statesmen was that the U.S. was merely trying to beat Moscow to a propaganda pedestal: we-love-peace-more-than-you-do. But when Washington finally got around to "clarifying...
...nine years, ever since he arrived in Washington in 1939, a tall, dark, diffident young man with darting, unfixed eyes. He had not changed much, just grown a little heavier; his brief smiles (which at first made his new diplomatic acquaintances feel they might somehow "get across" to this Russian) were briefer than before. He would leave his name behind in the U.S. vernacular: "to pull a gromyko"-meaning, variously, to walk out or to be a robot reiterating the reflexive...
When they went on sale at a small shop next door to a Russian headquarters building, the Communist daily, Volks-stimme, huffed: "Bananas, yet! Apparently there are no more important foodstuffs we can import against our industrial goods. Bananas...
Individual donations, however, were sometimes carefully earmarked, vaguely as in the case of five dollars for "some Russian institution" and more specific choices such as $1.67 to Heidelberg "to be used for dueling swords." One benefactor specified Yale...