Word: russian
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...Chicago native, Stone was born in 1944 to Russian immigrant parents who ran the second-largest laundry in all of Chicago, he says with a certain pride...
...Whitehead did not just use his Soviet contacts for diplomatic means. As co-owner of the New Jersey Devils until 2000, he lobbied the Russian leadership to allow the hockey star Viacheslav Detisov to play...
...much was even noted in Moscow. The Russian humor magazine Krokodil lambasted Harvard in its Sept. 30 edition for being under the thumb of the U.S. military. It even ran a cartoon on its back page entitled “Mathematics,” which showed a drill sergeant shouting “one, two, one, two” at a group of Harvard students carrying rifles...
...women to become docents at the Museum of Fine Arts. She helped to found the Beacon Hill Nursery School nearly 50 years ago. She also founded a reading group with two other women, modeled on a Harvard tutorial. Over the past 45 years, the group has covered American, Russian, French, Spanish and German Literature, as well as the English novel, ancient Greece and Rome, and, most recently, South American history and literature...
When the Pacifist Council asked Russian-born Professor of Psychology Pitirim A. Sorokin to be their consultant, he declined. Even though he had come to the U.S. three decades earlier, he said his Russian background made him an inappropriate choice for the position...