Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boating together." A British lady, laboring under the delusion that she possesses a gift for repartee, is asked by a friend why she requires such a preposterously large pin to hold a single rose in place on her ample bosom, and replies: "The better to gouge out Russian eyes, my dear! Ha ha, oh dear me!" An American lady stares across the room and says sweetly: "Look at those Russian women. No necks at all. Just chins, shoulders and breasts. No necks...
...objects of this comment stick close to their husbands and their husbands stick close to one another. Russian officers and political advisers cluster tightly in two corners of the main room, tense little groups conversing as if the buffet were a conference table to which they had to return in five minutes with a major policy decision...
...Cure for Hunger. In the dark street outside, brightened only by the headlights of the dignitaries' cars, a score or so of Germans watch curiously. A woman mutters savagely: "The Russian women have dresses on now. but you can see they still aren't used to them." The other women murmur appreciatively at the swishing skirts, bright prints and daring necklines that flash quickly from the door to the cars, but one husband says angrily: "Come along home. This is no cure for being hungry." In the dark street, hate blazes furiously-but not too noisily...
...Shoot to Sink." No such hallucinations afflicted the principals in a near naval battle off Staten Island last week. The Russian ship Pobeda came into New York harbor with 37 employees for Russia's U.N. delegation. A U.S. health service officer came aboard for routine rat inspection. The Pobeda's captain took umbrage at what he considered an affront to national honor when the inspector claimed to have found evidence of rats. He refused to have his ship fumigated, insisting that his was a clean ship, with no rats. The health men showed him rat footprints on greasy...
...same week Joseph Stance, health inspector of Glen Cove, L.I., was sure that what he smelled was no hallucination. More like an overworked cesspool, thought Stanco. He followed his nose to the old Maxwell estate at Glen Cove, now leased as a weekend recreation spot for Russian U.N. staffers. Stanco said that he could see a pump working on the cesspool but he could not pursue his investigation further because the Russians would not let him inside the house. "You have your laws," said a courteous comrade, "and we have ours. Your American laws do not concern...