Word: see
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like the boy in the Russian folktale whose magical hat allows him to see and hear everything unobserved, I sat at the dinner table and listened to Razhev and Karpov. The exchanges about ecology and the financial obligations of local factories to the surrounding community crackled. But it was not the flow of argument that impressed me so much as the fact that an American was allowed to listen. Had Soviet officials always spoken so bluntly among themselves? Or was this a reflection of plyuralizm, a borrowed word slipping awkwardly off Russian tongues...
...factory supplies its workers with food," said Selyugin, "but, all the same, you can see our problem for yourselves." Then he nodded toward the salesgirls wearing mink hats and added, "They're doing all right, though...
...inspection team from Moscow has now finished its work and will be returning home, " I said. "We have seen a great deal and have talked a lot about perestroika. We promise you that we will come back to see just what you have accomplished...
...most memorable pieces, Shinkaretsky posed as a worker in a sausage factory. Passing several indifferent guards, he walked out the factory gate and headed toward a hidden television camera. Pulling a large ham from under his coat, he told viewers, "You see how easy it is to steal here." After the report was aired, the factory tightened security...
...instead of a 12-meter (65-ft.) boat like those used since 1958. With time running out, Conner and his team knew they could not design a sufficiently speedy monohull vessel of their own. So Conner opted for a smaller, swifter, multihulled catamaran. Justice Ciparick decided to wait to see the outcome of the race before ruling on the legitimacy of the U.S. entry...