Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Precisely at 3 o'clock one afternoon last week, a Comet 4 jetliner landed at Moscow's Vrukovo Airport and began to disgorge a troop of Britons incongruously decked out in Russian-style fur hats, rented from London's famed provider of borrowed finery, Moss Bros. As the visitors emerged into the unseasonable warmth (41°), a Soviet honor guard sprang to attention, bayonets flashing in the sunlight, and a military band broke into God Save the Queen. Beaming broadly, Nikita Khrushchev doffed his own beaver hat and told Prime Minister Harold Macmillan: "We welcome...
...Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures will probably offer a non intensive second year course in Russian next year, Albert B. Lord, chairman of the department said yesterday...
...entitled Slavic B, the course will be an alternative to Slavic Bab, which covers a year's work in one semester. Several students now taking first year Russian have requested such a course, Lord said...
...Navy ship is currently investigating the interruption of cable service. Navy officials refused to comment on a radio report that the cable had been cut in several places by Russian fishing vessels...
This aspect of Geophysical Year work went unpublished outside scientific circles. The masses of the world and the politicians remember the competitive side--the Sputnik arrogantly displayed in the Russian colossus at the Brussels World's Fair, and the voice of President Eisenhower beamed from the edge of space. Even the highly literate peoples of the United States and Western Europe were swept up in the satellite race, to the neglect of other aspects of IGY. Rockets which carried instruments last year were visualized as carrying thermonuclear payloads next year...