Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reluctantly the Russians gave way, allowed Rickover to crawl all over the Lenin (which he pronounced "a creditable job"). As the terrible-tempered admiral finally prepared to leave, a Russian official asked him if he was satisfied. "No," said Hyman Rickover. "I am pleased, but I am never satisfied...
Adam's Fall. From the Lenin, Kozlov and Nixon went on to play "Can You Top This?" at Peterhof, Peter the Great's lavish palace, with its trick garden gadgets to douse the unwary with fountain sprays. When Nixon tried out his rudimentary Russian on the crowd in the gardens, Kozlov topped him by commenting in rudimentary English: "Very good." Then, recalling that the Peterhofs 560 statues had been buried for safety during the Nazis' World War II siege of the city, Kozlov pointed to figures of Adam and Eve, separated by a wide garden, and cracked...
...Union? Why doesn't the U.S. recognize Red China? Aware of the Communist tactic, but also mindful of an audience whose sympathy he might win, Nixon gave restrained but unyielding answers, pounding away endlessly at Russia's jamming of U.S. broadcasts and its refusal to give the Russian people a chance to choose freely between conflicting "truths." At Uralmash, the Siberian plant that has made so many machine tools that it is called "the Mother of Factories," Nixon told a heckling foreman: "I can tell from talking to you that you are a highly intelligent...
...Boeing 707 jets waiting to take the Nixon party on to Warsaw. Though dissatisfied with the highball proffered him-"You Americans spoil whisky. There's more ice than whisky in this"-Khrushchev was visibly impressed with Nixon's VIP-eouipped 707, and jokingly invited crack Russian Aircraft Designer Andrei Tupolev, standing near by, to "try to steal" some of the ideas. "It's a very well-made plane," he said...
...Russian TV viewers got a garbled version of the same dialogue. Many of Nixon's remarks were not translated at all; in Pravda the vice presidential contribution was cut to five sentences. Pravda edited Khrushchev too, but judiciously, e.g., his patently false boast that Russian workers could afford the U.S. exhibition's $14,000 demonstration home. Said the London Daily Telegraph: "There can be no doubt that the Russian version aimed at presenting [Nixon] as a feeble and defensive debater in the face of a righteous and rumbustious Mr. Khrushchev...