Word: stal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ciano was no fool. He saw the writing on the wall well ahead of the other stal warts of the Fascist hierarchy, began making quiet plans to save himself. His solicitude cost him the favor of the Nazis, later the trust of his fellow-Fascists. Mussolini took over the portfolio of Foreign Affairs, made his son-in-law Ambassador to the Vatican. But he let Ciano save face with a seat on the Fascist Grand Council, and it was there that Ciano pulled down his house of cards about his ears: when the Council voted to oust Mussolini last July...
...birch-paneled office within the dark-towered Kremlin, Joseph Stalin (pronounced Stal-yn), an imponderable, soberly persistent Asiatic, worked at his desk 16 to 18 hours a day. Before him he kept a huge globe showing the course of campaigns over territory he himself defended in the civil wars of 1917-20. This time he again defended it, and mostly by will power. There were new streaks of grey in his hair and new etchings of fatigue in his granite face.* But there was no break in his hold on Russia and there was long-neglected recognition of his abilities...