Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Half Citizens. The U.S. Communist Party, born in 1919, was a rachitic child dropped on the U.S. doorstep by the Russian Revolution. The U.S., historically crowded with rebels and reformers-vegetarians, Fletcherizers, yogi followers and deep-breathers; Know-Nothings, Single-Taxers, Abolitionists and seekers after Utopias; Tom Paines, John Browns, W. J. Bryans and Gene Debses-always had room for one more heresy, even a foundling of communism...
...last Amelia ever saw of him. She did hear from him by way of an occasional postcard from Europe. Some years later a Los Angeles lawyer told her to stop around at his office, there confided to her that Reggie was happy, that Timothy was learning to speak Russian, and that Frankie was enrolled at the Lenin Institute in Moscow...
Technically, the Russians had the power to keep it up indefinitely, and for all the West knew, they might try to do just that. But the fact was that the blockade had embarrassed the Russians more than it had the West. Since the Western powers refused to let any trade pass into the Russian zone while the blockade was on, the economic situation in Russia's Germany has become increasingly serious. East Berlin's Communist Mayor Friedrich Ebert last week publicly proposed that trade between the two sections of the city be resumed. Behind the scenes, Germans...
...score. They had gone way over the top, had flown in 12,940 tons. That was equivalent to the load 22 freight trains might have carried-more than Berlin's West sectors even got by land in a single day before the nine-months-old Russian blockade began...
Poland's Juliusz Katz-Suchy quickly jumped to Gromyko's defense. McNeil, he said, must have been visiting "the delicatessen of the Waldorf-Astoria. People in my delicatessen talk differently." When a newsman later asked where his pro-Russian delicatessen was located, Katz-Suchy impatiently brushed him off. "I often eat in delicatessens," he said evasively, "all along Sixth Avenue...