Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then she met Russian-born Jacob Golos, an American citizen but a Russian spy. She fell in love with him. After Golos suffered a heart attack in 1941, he launched her on her own spying career...
...recalled, "Silvermaster said that Currie dashed into Silverman's home and said the Americans were on the verge of breaking the Russian code." That information made the Russians "very excited." They asked her to find out which code; she never could...
...left his grandfather's Calvinistic Church, had had a look in at Catholicism and had finally joined the Episcopal Church. As an acolyte in cassock and surplice he regularly served at Mass. But now he had turned to Far Eastern mysticism. He became fascinated with a fork-bearded Russian theosophist named Nicholas Roerich, and later, when he became Secretary of Commerce, sent Roerich to Outer Mongolia to do research in grasses. Roerich was the "Guru" (Spiritual Leader) to whom the now famous "Dear Guru" letters, full of mystical fiddle-faddle, were written. Wallace has never either admitted or denied...
...several points. Among them: 1) What would his system do about homonyms-words with several different meanings (run has 41 separate meanings as a noun, 49 as a verb, five as an adjective)? 2) What number would make democracy mean the same thing to an American and a Russian...
Died. Leo Bulgakov, 59, Russian-born actor-producer and onetime member of the famed Moscow Art Theater; of coronary thrombosis; in Binghamton, N.Y. Bulgakov left Russia for a U.S. tour in 1923, staged highly acclaimed Broadway and Yiddish Theater adaptations of The Cherry Orchard and The Lower Depths, never went back to Moscow...