Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fred Van Ackerman. They are first censured, then pitied, then embraced by leading members of the printed and broadcast media who, confronted by the possibility that China will defeat Russia in their atomic contest, resort to whatever slogans desperation suggests to try to swing American public opinion behind the Russian cause. I describe this process step by step, as the media's panjandrums reluctantly but inexorably leave sanity behind and begin hysterically to raise the bugaboo of "the yellow peril...
...surface ships and 100 submarines, along with land-based aircraft, were involved in a massive naval exercise, the first such worldwide maneuvers that the Soviet navy has run in five years. The Soviets dubbed the maneuvers "Spring"; the West called them "Okean 1975," a reference to the Okean (Russian for ocean) maneuvers that the Soviets held in 1970. The new exercise was apparently scheduled for the same length of time as the last one-about three weeks...
Kobysh was impressed, and not just by "the great names" of Roosevelt, Kennedy and Kissinger. The students he met all seem to have been friendly and attractive, jeans notwithstanding, and a surprising percentage spoke excellent Russian...
...Zhivago. Now we're back to the Russian Revolution again. If this mammoth, loud, soppy dinosaur was shrunk down to its value as cinema (not cinerama) it would fit in Eisenstein's left nostril, who would no doubt, blow it out as quickly as he could...
Even as the U.S. and the Soviet Union step up preparations for July's orbital linkup of an Apollo and a Soyuz spacecraft, many American officials have quietly been expressing their concern that Russian space skills may not be equal to the demands of that historic mission. Last week those doubts were dramatically reinforced. Only minutes after its launch, a Soyuz spacecraft with two cosmonauts on board made a forced landing some 1,000 miles downrange in the rugged 13,000-ft.-high Altai Mountains of western Siberia...