Word: shepilov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whole Book. Besides these three, Khrushchev removed a man once regarded as his protégé: leonine, lug-eared Dmitry Shepilov, 51, ex-Foreign Minister responsible for the disastrous Soviet buildup in Egypt. For good measure Khrushchev threw out a couple of technocrat Deputy Premiers who had got in the way of his industrial planning: Maxim Saburov and Mikhail Pervukhin...
...Hatching Cunning Schemes." The climax of the hate campaign came with an address given by Khrushchev to the workers of the Elektrosila factory in Leningrad, and broadcast nationally. Khrushchev accused Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich of "hatching cunning schemes" to obtain "key positions in the party," and called Shepilov "a most shameless double-dealing individual...
...penetrate the Middle East. Martial law will be lifted, he said, "when we see that Communism-or, really, Moscow-is going to stop creating troubles among our neighboring countries. I don't believe Moscow is going to stop creating disturbances, so we must be careful not to allow Shepilov, Khrushchev and others to deal with our safety, our policy." As-Said was riding high: months ago he was isolated, the only Arab signer of the pro-Western Baghdad Pact; now his rivals in Syria and Egypt were the ones isolated...
Worm-eaten Met. So the younger generation would not get any too-daring ideas, former Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov, now Central Committee secretary, appeared to remind everyone of the "irreconcilable struggle against degrading musical art of the capitalist world." Shepilov praised "comradely controversy" and "respect for different views," but he also insisted that the "fundamental esthetic principles" of the Zhdanov decree are "immutable." He wound up the congress with a surefire blast at the West. Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, he remarked, is housed in an "old, dirty, worm-eaten, leaky building," dependent upon artists from West Germany, Italy...
...think it would be better," he added, "to have Nasser and Ben Gurion sit down together than to have Shepilov or America or England fish into the matter...