Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...look at the picture of the Zielezinski family and oh, how I envy them! but wish them the best also. I was once a farmer like Mr. Rhinehart but in 1939 the Germans took my property away and in 1945 the Soviet-Polish regime took it again for themselves. How gladly would I accept the place of a laborer on a farm like the one of Mr. Rhinehart, and feed the chickens for him, because I cannot do much hard work - being feeble and middleaged. Please do not forget about us D.P.s from many European countries...
...General Clay gave emphatic evidence that the U.S. was not to be stampeded. Said he: "We are going to continue to fly our airplanes no matter what happens in the air corridors." Then, borrowing a leaf from Soviet tactics, he and his British counterpart issued an order prohibiting the movement of all trains into and out of the Russian zone. The reason: "technical difficulties...
...remarkable hours, the hunger of Berlin and the fears of the world seem as remote as the banished darkness. The divided world unites in the extravagant exchange of buffet-and-cocktail banalities-perhaps the only true international language. Bright Scottish kilts swish past the dull tan of Soviet uniforms; a U.S. admiral's navy blue is lightly brushed by the pastel veils of an Indian sari. Vodka, French wines and odd Eastern European cocktails spill on the oriental rugs from glasses negligently tilted or moved in too hasty gesticulation. There are lavish loads on two great buffet tables: platters...
...months but I really do like it . . . We certainly don't get food like this at home." To this the young Russian nods understandingly and vigorously and says simply: "Me too." All seems to be going splendidly for a pleasant three-power chat till a dark, curly-haired Soviet major taps the lieutenant on the shoulder and murmurs something briefly. The chat ends abruptly, as the lieutenant looks back regretfully at his unfinished plate. The American shrugs...
...Iron Curtain. Darryl F. Zanuck's blunt-spoken thriller about the Soviet-Canadian atomic spy ring, with Dana Andrews as the man who cracked it (TIME...