Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...established fact. "Five hundred and sixty miles is only the distance from Bonn to Vienna," growled West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. "It does not prove they can fire anything parallel to the earth over a distance of many thousand miles." And even if Sputnik did imply Russian possession of an early version of an ICBM, the balance of atomic superiority still lay with the U.S. "The threat of devastation still hangs heavy over the Soviet head, derived from the ring of bomber bases. We know nothing to suggest that Sputnik or anything like it can stop such potential...
...position to inflict what NATO's General Lauris Norstad once called "absolute" destruction on Russia. This capacity-the ability to smash Russia from close up and hence to destroy her more thoroughly than she could hope to destroy the U.S.-has been the ultimate deterrent to Russian military adventures. If the day of an ICBM standoff and of equal capacity for destruction is now dawning, new force will be given to Stalin's dictum to Roosevelt at Yalta: "Neither of us wants war, but our strength is that you fear it more." Protected-at least in their...
Missing Pots. More sober comment came from such thoughtful Europeans as Thierry Maulnier. who wrote in Le Figaro: "The Russian people can ... see in the sky a brilliant star which carries above the world the light of Soviet power, thanks to millions of pots and shoes lacking." And France's Combat pointedly declared: "We ourselves would like it if the Russians would put some of their pride into the evolution of a better world -an end to the world of concentration camps...
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...last week Nikita Khrushchev flexed his muscles and sent out signals in the toughest kind of Russian. For his main transmitter the exultant Soviet boss chose visiting U.S. Newsman James Reston, shrewdly calculating that as Washington bureau chief of the New York Times, Reston was in a position to give the message maximum amplification...