Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hollowing out rings and cuff links and making them into message holders, a book on cryptoanalysis, maps of Chicago and Washington and upper New York State, radio tubes, high-speed film, a Hallicrafters radio (capable of receiving messages from Russia), and a variety of cryptic messages written in Russian and English. The most intriguing, possibly a code for an art-gallery rendezvous: "Is this an interesting picture? Yes. Do you want me to see it, Mr. Brandt? Smokes pipe and has red book in left hand...
...cameras inadvertently gave the show away by panning slowly across thousands of empty seats. After that, embarrassed East German Communists gave up live TV coverage of the Khrushchev tour, and set about organizing a monster windup rally in East Berlin's Marx-Engels Platz that would give their Russian master a Red-hot sendoff...
...Berlin's Ostbahnhof to plant chummy kisses on both cheeks of Party Boss Walter Ulbricht and Premier Otto Grotewohl. With Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, the agile Armenian, at his elbow as Bulganin's tardy standin, Khrushchev marched confidently through the station to inspect a bristling guard of Russian-helmeted East Germans, and take the cheers of some 10,000 Berliners conscripted from their government offices and factories for the occasion...
...still such anxieties, U.S. diplomats drew up other inspection zones of U.S. and Russian lands in the Arctic, and Dulles won European support by making inspection of European zones conditional upon Russian agreement to inspection elsewhere. Dulles made these proposals...
...communiqué's talk of "working to remove obstacles" suggested that obstacles are still there. Obviously, Tito is not lightly going to surrender any of his nine-year-old independence; just as obviously, he is still a Communist. There was perhaps a smidgin of truth in a Russian commentator's remark: "The common objectives and tasks of our two countries are greater than our differences...