Word: sekaninova
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...Anglo-American bloc." Was he going to retire? Quipped white-haired Vishinsky, 68: "Qui vivra verra [He who lives shall see]." All but one of the satellite lackeys was at hand. Five minutes before the train was due to leave, U.N. Czech Delegate Gertruda Sekaninova-Cakrtova came breathlessly galloping down the platform of the cavernous Gare de l'Est, thrust a Cellophane box of orchids into Vishinsky's hand...
...sharply observant eye once again brought history to life. It was finicky about detail, looking over the shoulder of Czechoslovakia's Gertruda Sekaninova as she jotted down notes; absorbedly watching Japan's Premier Shigeru Yoshida nimbly unroll the manuscript of his speech with one hand and roll it up with the other; turning away from a repetitious speaker to look at the stony-faced Russians, at an Anglo-American huddle...
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