Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Marx wrote for the New York daily Tribune (later to become the Herald Tribune) more than a century ago. The time was the ill-fated Crimean War of 1853-56, in which a British-French expeditionary force, after many a blunder, frustrated Czarist Russia's plans to swallow the Turkish Empire. Correspondent Marx, then an impoverished freelance journalist scribbling in a London slum, looked beyond the surface meaning of the war, beyond the imperious figure of the Czar, and saw a "barbarous" power embarked on a campaign of world conquest...
Prayilny: Intouristy (literally, foreign visitors), meaning any of the locals who are dumb enough to swallow the party line. Koni (parents, literally horses), seriaki (old squares, grey ones) and gady (cops, literally reptiles). Anyone else who gets you into a lazha (jam), such as a pizhon (stoolie) or piraty (secret police), otherwise known as iskusstuovedy (literally, art experts...
...intimate Kremlin secrets might upset delicate Soviet-Yugoslav relations. The book discloses details of Tito's plan to move two army divisions into neighboring Albania and take over the Communist satellite. In January 1948, Djilas reports, Stalin enthusiastically supported the scheme, told the author: "You ought to swallow up Albania, the sooner the better."* But a few days later, the Soviet dictator changed his mind, fearing Tito's increased influence in the Balkans. Hastily, Stalin sent a telegram to Belgrade warning that he would expose Tito's invasion plans if they were not called off. Five months...
average of 3.87?). What was hard to swallow was the realization that if Beech-ing succeeds in adapting to modern needs and techniques a 50,000-mile network designed for the 1880s, scores of branch lines and hundreds of its 7,000 stations will disappear. The last of the beloved "puffing billies" will yield to gaseous diesels or electric locomotives, and the aromatic privacy of the old first-class passenger compartment will give way to open, air-conditioned cars with central aisles, airliner seats and Muzak...
...last week filed a rare body of worshipers-150 executives and employees of Courtaulds Ltd., Britain's biggest textile manufacturer, to offer corporate thanks for their "deliverance from anxiety." The cause of their rejoicing: the failure of giant Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. in its $596 million bid to swallow up Courtaulds and thereby achieve a near-monopoly of Britain's synthetic fiber industry. In the biggest takeover fight in the history of British business, I.C.I, had managed to acquire only 38.5% of Courtaulds' outstanding common shares-enough to make it Courtaulds' biggest single stockholder...