Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sure water supply, but the electricity was still on last week, and they have an ample stock of food and four bathtubs 'filled with water before the regular supply failed (plus the lily pond when these give out). During the long evenings Mr. and Mrs. Hawkings play Russian bank for pennies and halfpennies. "We call ourselves the last outpost of Empire out here," Mrs. Hawkings said. "I don't think we British ought to quit anywhere. It's a matter of prestige...
...European entries had variety and vigor too. France's Ossipe Zadkine contributed Menades-fragmentary fleeing figures that seemed closer to cubist painting than to most sculpture. Russian-born Jacques Lipchitz, who now lives in Greenwich Village, submitted Sacrifice, a handsomely ugly bronze of a man knifing a rooster; the disturbing thing about Sacrifice was that, stared at a while, the man began to look like a rooster, the rooster like...
...Foote's case, the more he dealt with his Russian masters and the more he saw of their methods, the more he felt disillusioned with his dream of communism. Reading his report, it is easy to believe that Handbook, with all its lack of action and its glossy evidence of a ghostwriter's assistance, is the work of a man who knows what he is talking about...
Lunch in Munich. Foote's Handbook for Spies is an unpretentious, understated account of the job he did for his Russian employers. Readers looking for cloak-&-dagger excitement will not find it here. But the lack of phony tension and climax gives the book its own quiet tone of truth. Writes Foote: "The only excitement a spy is likely to have is his last, when he is finally run to earth." Foote was run to earth just once, fortunately for him in neutral Switzerland...
Back in Switzerland, after the war began, Foote transmitted such information as the Russian network could pick up about the German army's order of battle (strength and disposition of forces). He claims that one colleague, whose cover name was "Lucy," obtained complete Wehrmacht dispositions during the war. If so, and if the Russians credited the information from Switzerland, they need seldom have been surprised. Later, says Foote, Lucy turned out to be an adviser to the Swiss government with perfect high-level sources in Wehrmacht headquarters...