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Word: tankists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1956-1956
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...were said to be in Budapest working out a "solution." One solution that now appeared possible was one that a week ago seemed utterly improbable: the return of deposed Premier Imre Nagy. From his hideout in the small greystone two-storied Yugoslav embassy in Stalin Square (where a Soviet tankist a week earlier had killed the embassy's First Secretary Milenko Milov-nov), the intransigent Nagy sent word that he would have no dealings with Kadar. But Budapest's workers insisted that he was the only man they would trust to "ensure the achievements of our Revolution." Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: The Unvanquished | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...tank's camouflage netting listening to a radio. "Well, it's all over," said one at Tel Aviv's report of a cease-fire halting their Sinai blitz. "We should have finished Nasser off," said a second. "He's finished already," said a third tankist. "At last we've won a real victory and now we'll get a real peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: The Ashes of Victory | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

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