Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time Walked, by Vera Panova. An apolitical but warmly Russian account of the tides in the life of a six-year...
...biggest of all animals-the mammoth-may still be hiding in the forests of Siberia; its remains are still being dug from frozen swamps. In the 17th century invading Cossacks encountered hairy elephants, which they valued as "mountains of meat." As late as 1920 a Russian hunter reported that he came on two "elephants" in the thick of the forest...
...Thoughtless prescription of blood transfusion is playing Russian roulette with bottles of blood instead of a revolver," wrote Dr. William H. Crosby Jr. of Washington's Walter Reed Army Hospital. "While the odds are in the physician's favor that nothing will go wrong, the patient takes the risk." Doctors are familiar with such warnings; yet every week in the U.S. and Canada one or more patients die because what was meant to be a lifesaving transfusion turns out to be a death-dealing dose of incompatible blood (such as type A given to somebody with type...
...significant events of the day. The kind of stories that fill U.S. newspapers-including international tensions, local crime and disasters-are almost totally ignored unless they make a party-line point. Pravda's Satyukov stopped the presses only twice this year, once to insert a dispatch from the Russian news agency Tass covering U.A.W.-C.I.O. President Walter Reuther's phony "March of the Unemployed" on Washington (TIME, March 2), once to report Konrad Adenauer's decision to yield the West German chancellorship...
Died. Irakly Tsereteli, 77, leading Social Democrat who returned from Siberian exile at the outbreak of the 1917 Russian Revolution, served as Minister of the Interior in Kerensky's provisional government until Lenin and the Bolsheviks ran him and all other moderates out of power; of cancer; in Manhattan...