Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Black Diamond. The U.S. submarine revolution has its concomitant fact of cold-war life: every U.S. advance in submarine science is presumably within technological reach of the Soviet Union. U.S. intelligence indicates that the Russians have not yet built any nuclear subs. But the U.S.S.R. has the biggest submarine force ever known-500 boats, almost ten times the number Hitler had at the start of World War II. At least half the Soviet subs are new and big enough to have missile-launching capability, powerful enough to make long-range patrols into western Atlantic waters. In the last six months...
Summoned into emergency session three weeks ago amidst Russian cries of threatening war, the U.N. General Assembly met in Manhattan to defuse the international time bombs threatening the peace of the Middle East. Last week, after eight days of palaver, the Assembly brought forth its own novel method of bomb disposal. The technique: wrap the infernal device in verbal cotton wool-this deadens that unpleasant ticking sound-and tiptoe quickly away...
...four Soviet submarines that appeared in the English Channel last week, apparently bound for Egypt, were a sharp reminder of an important Russian addendum to the original doctrine, i.e., help your enemy's enemies. Other powers were beginning to make their own distinctive contributions to the theory and practice of foreign aid. Items...
...identified as councilor of the Soviet embassy in Peking, onetime (1946-48) U.S.S.R. consul general in New York; after long illness; place not revealed. Jacob Lomakin was kicked out of the U.S. in 1948 for his role as the heavy in the case of Mrs. Oksana S. Kasenkina, the Russian schoolteacher who jumped from the consulate window in Manhattan (after Lomakin had confined her there to await involuntary return to the Soviet Union) and was picked up, seriously injured, to recover, become a U.S. citizen...
Early during World War II, one of the most remarkable writers ever to emigrate to the U.S. arrived in New York from France. Vladimir Nabokov was a stateless Russian. Unlike Oscar Wilde, who earlier at the same port said he had nothing to declare but his genius, Nabokov declared a set of boxing gloves. Two customs inspectors each donned a pair, sparred a friendly round and chalked everything O.K. But it was Nabokov who really won that round, for he smuggled into the country a greater and more scandalous talent than Wilde...