Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...squadrons of Yak fighters droned over the city in formation, scaring Berliners. The four powers had agreed that there would be no formation flying over Berlin or over the Western air corridors. At the four-power Air Safety Center, the lone Russian official, who was poring over a magazine, looked at his watch, silently handed a paper to a U.S. captain sitting nearby, and resumed his reading. The paper was another protest against alleged U.S. flight violations...
...world's second largest bell* welcomed Tai Han Min Kook-the Republic of Korea. With General Douglas MacArthur in the reviewing stand, 10,000 soldiers marched past, and tore off their constabulary insignia to symbolize their conversion into a Korean army. But Korea's heavy stone remained; Russian forces still occupied North Korea...
When Japan seized the country in 1905, the pretext was that Korea was a "Russian dagger pointed at Japan's heart." As long as it held North Korea the Russian hand would continue to grasp the dagger's handle. This week Rhee asked U.S. occupation forces to stay on "until the danger from the north lessens...
...littered city rooms of Manhattan's four afternoon papers, the day was all but done. Most staffers had knocked off; the desks had released the legmen who had kept watch up at the Russian consulate. Soon the men on the Babe Ruth watch, at Memorial Hospital a mile away, could go home, leaving the watch to the morning papers. Next door to the Soviet consulate, half a dozen photographers idled. Across the street three reporters lolled in the lobby of the Hotel Pierre...
From the Pierre, the A.P.'s Vincent O'Mahoney saw the photographers come to life. He dashed out, with the Daily News's Frank Ross and the Daily Mirror's Ara Piastre at his heels. While they stared at the crumpled figure in the courtyard, Russian-speaking Reporter Piastre (daughter of Conductor Mishel Piastre) heard her moaning "Ostavte! Ostavte!" (Later, only the Herald Tribune went out of its way to credit Miss Piastro with the translation: "Leave me alone...