Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian press and radio told the world that the U.S. had: 1. Proposed a conference to "compose differences...
...revolution, the war did not amount to much. Compared to the French and Russian revolutions there was a minimum of storming through the streets, emptying the jails, rioting or looting. There were even, in some parts of the country, known Loyalists who lived throughout the war alongside patriotic heroes, only visited and warned if they became too outspoken or charged too high prices. Some of the same people attended American dances, after the recapture of Philadelphia, as had danced with the British officers during the winter of Valley Forge...
...great house on Long Island and another on Fifth Avenue couldn't protect her from social wounds inflicted by snobbish non-Catholics. She picked up other facts of life: "shanty" Irish didn't rate with her own "lace-curtain" set; German Jews thought that marriage to a Russian Jew was a comedown...
Ellin Berlin, an R.C. who married a Russian Jewish songwriter named Irving Berlin and made a go of it, knows that those who marry out of their faith are not always so lucky. In Lace Curtain, her second novel, Veronica goes through a young girl's social hell before she finally marries Protestant Jamie Stair. Then she discovers that not even love and children are sufficient armor against relatives and religious differences. At the end, Veronica waits for her husband to return from the war, prays that somehow they can make their marriage last...
...Many nations hitherto friendly to the U.S. would jump for a neutral corner between U.S. and Russia. 4. The Russian veto would still exist in the guise of Russian armed force...