Word: rying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taking such high-handed actions, Lenin now had the weapon of a new police force known as the Cheka, which authorized local soviets to "arrest and shoot immediately" all members of "counterrevolutiona ry organizations." When a Socialist Revolutionary named Fanny Kaplan shot Lenin in the neck, the Cheka rounded up and executed 500 of her party comrades in one night. Lenin's view: "We have never renounced and cannot renounce terror." As for the future role of the Communists, the Eighth Party Congress decreed in 1919 that "the Russian Communist Party should master for itself undivided political supremacy...
...York City in 1951 ("in the boys' choir") and has been doing unexpected things ever since. He acted with Grace Kelly in The Swan in 1955. A decade later he was lodged at Warner Bros. Records as a cultural curiosity and house genius, collaborating with such hothouse talents as Ry Cooder and Lowell George. In 1968 he turned out his first solo album, Song Cycle, a heavily layered and intricately rhymed portrait of Los Angeles that is like Thomas Pynchon on vinyl...