Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tense silence the voting began. On the first ballot Yugoslavia got 37 votes, only two less than the necessary two-thirds majority. Yugoslavia's Foreign Minister Edward Kardelj and his colleagues, who sat pale and worried right behind the Russian delegation, began to relax a little. On the second ballot Yugoslavia was elected, with 39 votes. Czechoslovakia got 19 votes, with one abstention...
...Vishinsky's phrase was gentlmenskoe soglashenie; the Russian language has borrowed the word "gentleman" from English. † This procedure has not always been followed; two years ago, when Russia backed the Ukraine for a Security Council seat, the U.S. and Britain backed India. The Ukraine was elected...
...took a lot of "fooling around" to get that visa, but Ed got it. "I told them," Ed said, "that I wanted to go there and buy a lot of Russian vodka, $2,000,000 worth, and sell it to the people in the U.S. I told them it wouldn't hurt Russia a bit." Two months ago Ed left for Europe with a bunch of Indianapolis businessmen on a tour sponsored by the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, and when he got to Helsinki, he decided to use his visa...
Limited Aims. Lippman has dealt specifically with the keys to any possible U.S.-Russian settlement: Germany and China...
...Even Russian Communists have sticky little bourgeois problems, it appeared from the autobiography of Oksana Kasenkina, the schoolteacher who escaped last year from the U.S.S.R.'s New York consulate by jumping out of a third-floor window. In her Leap to Freedom, Mrs. Kasenkina tells how the wife of Soviet Diplomat Andrei Gromyko appealed for her help in vetoing a romance between Gromyko's adolescent son Anatoli and pretty young Klava, who, after all, was only the daughter of a lowly embassy chauffeur...