Word: russianizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Gromyko, looking grimmer than usual in a pair of dark glasses, proposed a different plan-an immediate, unconditional cease-fire order which would in effect brand the Arabs as aggressors. Amid cheers from the spectators' gallery, U.S. Delegate Warren Austin sided with Russia. It was only after the Russian motion had been voted down by the Council that the U.S. switched its support to the British proposal. Ernie Bevin's formula thus became the basis last week of U.N.'s latest approach to a Palestine solution...
...Cheshire grin hanging over the whole scene was Joseph Stalin's. Russia sent a diplomatic mission to Israel (the first to the new state). Some observers feared that, in a pinch, Israeli extremists might ask for Russian aid, invite a chunk of the Red Army into the Middle East. It would probably not come to that. But by week's end, U.S. and British diplomats could not be sure that they had healed the U.S.-British rift...
...Helsinki last week, Soviet Ambassador Grigory Savenenkov entertained the Finnish cabinet at a showing of a Russian movie suggestively entitled Song of Siberia. That was merely one move in the week's kid-glove test of strength...
Recently on the Red Arrow, night train from Leningrad to Moscow, Father Laberge was assigned a bed in a four-berth compartment with three women. Such scrambled bookings are not unusual on Russian trains, but these women were no ordinary travelers. They were party members on their way to a party powwow, and the opportunity to cross-examine a priest delighted them. Asked one: "Now tell us the truth. Do you really believe the Pope is infallible?" Said the priest: "Yes, in matters of faith and morals, the Pope is infallible." But he continued: "I'm going...
...Nazarovs is an attempt to reconstruct, in fictional form, the agony of the Russian people between 1892 and 1942. Mrs. Fischer obviously has a warm heart, an observant eye and an intelligent mind. But fiction is an art which demands more: the rare light of imagination and the difficult tools of prose...