Word: russian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Demonstrating a brand of play unknown in the United States, the Russian hockey team scored at 3:02 of the opening period and was never headed as it went on to score an effortless 11-1 win over the Crimson last night at Boston Garden...
When the Nazis marched into Paris, Joanovici sought to avoid the concentration camps by taking out Soviet citizenship papers (the Nazi-Soviet pact was not yet broken). Taunted later for this, Joanovici snapped: "So, is it a crime? There were queues a mile long outside the Russian embassy...
...four-color cover cartoon, Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht is a pirate whose wooden leg, watered by vodka, has taken root in a Red army helmet. The caption: "Forward into 1959." Tarantel's description of East Germany's Defense Minister Heinz Kessler: "Third German to desert on the Russian front." Lead v. Gold. The man who puts the sting into Tarantel is a dapper, driving Berliner who goes by the name of Heinrich Baer. Baer has reason to hate the Communists. As a Wehrmacht corporal, he fought on the Russian front. After the war the Soviets tossed him into...
...overall aim was good. U.S.'s Pioneer III deviated from its planned course by 3.5°. If it had reached the moon's orbit, it would have missed the moon by about 14,590 miles. The Russian miss (4,660 miles) was an error of only slightly more than...
Died. Valentina Pavlovna Guercken Wasson, 57, Russian-born Manhattan pediatrician who, with her husband, stood in the absolute front rank of amateur experts on the mushroom; of cancer; in Manhattan. Dr. and Mrs. R. Gordon Wasson (a vice president of J.P. Morgan & Co., Inc.) traveled around the world in pursuit of exotic mushrooms, published in 1957 the two-volume Mushrooms, Russia and History. Probably the most recondite work on mycology ever printed, it was limited to 512 copies, sold for $125, now brings...