Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even without the weekly batch of transients, the Russian presence in Luxembourg is about as subtle as an elephant at a garden party. Ambassador Yevgeni Kosarev, a dour commissar-type who bores his fellow diplomats at cocktail parties by talking endlessly about grain crops, supervises an embassy of 36 Soviet officials-roughly one for every 10,000 Luxembourgers...
...beers after class. Frank's paratroop outfit had been awakened one night in 1958, herded onto planes, and flown over Berlin. "They were going to throw us to the Russian invasion as a token resistance...
...battle and claimed victory in the war as well. Yet for the N.H.L., which touts the Stanley Cup as "symbolic of the world's hockey championship," some reassessment is in order. Vyacheslav Koloskov, Campbell's equivalent in the Soviet Union, has suggested that the N.H.L. invite some Russian teams to compete...
...Ohio, is usually known as the place where McGuffey's Readers were launched, and where Red Blaik and Ara Parseghian got their starts in football. After last week it may also be remembered as the site of the U.S. debut of the latest in a long line of Russian pianists that includes Emil Gilels and Sviatoslav Richter. Lazar Berman, 45, is unknown in the U.S. and Western Europe. But collectors of Soviet recordings, as well as many pianists throughout the world, have for years praised his talent...
...months of tethered ardor, he tried to rape a woman patient-and into the army. For Pasqualino, the second World War is a survival course which requires all his back-alley resources. He fakes being wounded by stealing the bandages from a dead soldier, thus avoiding assignment to the Russian front. He deserts, gets caught by Nazis and is imprisoned in a concentration camp where dead bodies hang from the ceiling and litter the floor like parched, trampled leaves...