Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maria Isaeva was blonde, thin, neurotic and married. Her drunken clod of a husband was controller of the distillation and sale of liquor in Semipalatinsk, the Siberian border town to which Dostoevsky was sent as an army private after his release from prison. Soon the smitten 33-year-old soldier and the sensitive lady were holding hands and crying into each other's sweet tea while hubby sprawled in a drunken stupor on the divan. After Isaev died, they were married. But Maria was frigid, and Dostoevsky was soon complaining: "We're living so-so . . . The heart will...
...above. †50 gs for ¼ of a second, building up at a rate of 500 gs per second; 40 gs for 1/5 of a second, building up at 1,500 gs per second; 25 gs for one second; building up at 600 gs per second. * One of them: "Siberian Tiger Steak." Recipe: "Take a one-vertebra thickness of Tbone, rub with sodium glutamate, powdered ginger, powdered mustard, garlic, thyme and cumin seed before broiling...
Czech Composer Leos Janacek (Jenufa) was fascinated by Dostoevsky's autobiographical novel. From the House of the Dead, about life in a Siberian prison camp. In 1928, in the last year of his life but still at the peak of his powers. Janacek used the Dostoevsky work as the basis of a three-act opera. It had one of its rare performances last summer at the Holland Festival, where it was recorded by Phillips, and last week Aus Einem Totenhaus was released in the U.S. on two Epic...
...declare itself neutralist, and has in its power, if it wishes, the ability to pay the Japanese a formidable price, to wit: return of Southern Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands; entry into the U.N.; return of 10,000 Japanese P.W.s and "war criminals"; trade and fishing concessions in Siberian waters. Some or all of these inducements, plus the "normalized relations" promised to the Japanese electorate by Premier Ichiro Hatoyama last February, might bring the neutralist pledge...
...such it will always be." Following the tactics of General Gallieni, who defended Paris against the Germans in 1914, Zhukov requisitioned every automotive vehicle he could find in Moscow, including the Kremlin limousines, and put a scratch army of volunteers on the Moscow-Mozhaisk road. He brought the Siberian army across on the trans-Siberian railroad and deployed them in five columns around Moscow. The fresh, well-officered Siberians pushed Von Bock's columns back out of artillery range of the capital. Then the Russian winter, the severest in 50 years, halted all but patrol activity...