Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chess, for the Soviet Union, is not just a game; it is a psychological weapon in Communism's cultural struggle with the West. Thus when World Champion Anatoli Karpov, 27, squared off against flamboyant Russian Defector Victor Korchnoi, 47, for the title and $550,000 in prizes at the remote Philippine resort of Baguio City three months ago, the Soviet chess establishment took no unnecessary risks. To give advice, they provided Karpov with a cadre of talented seconds. To ensure his privacy, they dispatched a crew of grim-faced security men, led by a cigar-chomping ex-KGB prosecutor...
Wojtyla is tireless, sometimes putting in 20-hour days, and known as a voracious reader. He is fluent in Latin, Italian, English, French and German, as well as Polish. Not Russian? Said a priest in his entourage when asked that question last week: "No Pole speaks Russian?but everyone understands it." A flip-up desk allows him to write while being driven in his car. He has a disconcerting habit of reading or writing while carrying on a conversation?and then displaying total recall of what was said...
Another student who wrote his dissertation on Medieval Russian criminology said, "I've got my share of job rejections, but it's challenging. You just have to convince yourself...
Leslie said that Jennie's niece, Clare Sheridan, who was Winston Churchill's only female cousin, was able to "battle out of the same world that held Jennie in its clutches." A sculptress and journalist who journeyed to Moscow and lived in the Kremlin during the Russian Revolution, Clare "was the first great romantic career women...
...winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Thus, The Swedish Academy of Letters did not cite the author for his "impassioned narrative art which, with its roots in a Polish-Jewish tradition, brings universal human conditions to life," adding that current comparisons of Singer's work to that of Russian author Leo Tolstoy have absolutely no validity...