Word: stone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...army marshals do not enter lightly into correspondence with old friends abroad. Zhukov's letter, taken together with his May Day speech, was an official gesture toward the West. Coming from Zhukov, and not from Molotov the Great Stone Face, the message was, and was meant to be, more acceptable. For Georgy Zhukov is a great professional soldier, whose name will be linked in Russian history with the victories of Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad and Berlin. Zhukov has always faithfully obeyed party orders, but he also seems to have stayed out of power politics and cliques. From the point...
Because other ex-Czarist officers had been going over to the Whites, often with their troops, the Bolsheviks in 1918 appointed commissars to every Red army unit: stone-hard Communists whose job it was to make men and officers accept "the spirit of revolutionary discipline," or else. Said Realist Trotsky: "An army cannot be built without reprisals. Masses of men cannot be led to death unless the army command has the death penalty in its arsenal." Thus began the pernicious commissar system which years later was to bring the army, and Soviet Russia itself, almost to destruction...
...poet Bert (ThreePenny Opera) Brecht, but its only ideological message is antimili-tarism (the Communists condemned the text in 1951 as too "unpolitical"). In a stunning setting of blocks and planes, Lucullus faces a jury of five pale shades: courtesan, teacher, baker, farmer and fishwife. His character witnesses are stone-relief figures from the frieze that decorates his tomb...
...only other meeting between the two sides this season, the Crimson used the Tigers as an easy, 8-0 stepping stone to the finals of Bermuda's Intercollegiate Cup. Last Saturday, Princeton dropped a close 5-3 decision to Dartmouth, whom the Crimson beat 9 to 0 in the cup final...
While a U.S. Army band tootled Hearts of Stone, 787 Canadian infantrymen trudged down the gangplank of a U.S. Navy transport in Seattle harbor one day last week. They were officers and men of the 2nd Battalion, Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, heading home after a year of exacting but unspectacular service along the Korean truce line...