Word: tass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more times, five times in all, every hour up to midnight, the loudspeakers blared, the guns boomed, the rockets soared. By 10 o'clock Red Square was jammed. The sky was dark now, and the red, blue, green and orange rockets made, a better show-as if, said Tass the next day, "the palette of a magic painter had come alive on a gigantic canvas." Every Moscow paper had a leading editorial on the "Day of Five Salutes...
...they are fascinated by news reports which U.S. readers would find dust-dry. The most that the reader gets in the way of entertainment is an occasional sardonic cartoon -usually aimed at Fascism. He finds a back page largely filled with cut-&-dried foreign news from the official agency, Tass. The front-page formula rarely varies: a Stalin Order of the Day (prikaz) in the two left columns, plus another two columns on military operations (svodka). The two inside pages are devoted to feature articles from the front and to uplifting or critical reports from the collective farms and factories...
...Washington last week State Department correspondents chose their dates for invasion and paid $1 each into a pool, winner to take all. The Tass (Soviet) correspondent guessed April 20, the more cautious Reuters (British) correspondent Sept...
...prevent a recurrence" of such "regrettable confusions" as Reuters' beat on the Cairo Conference, the Tass's ditto on Teheran, Franklin Roosevelt announced a new policy...
...Saturday, while reporters waited in Washington and London for a "hold for release" communiqué on the Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin conference, Tass, the Russian news agency, cracked that story over the Moscow radio...