Word: tasse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...safely in control of two-thirds of the seats in the Assembly, after an election he had decreed; his own man, General Thanom Kittikachorn, was Premier; young King Phumiphon was carefully holding himself above politics and giving no encouragement to the opposition. When a Soviet attaché and a Tass newsman spoke slightingly of Sarit this month, the government reacted sharply by kicking both out of the country...
...camp" in the Russian Arctic. Other hearsays turned up as time passed: Vasily Stalin was dead in a central Asiatic slave labor camp, alive in a Moscow prison, mentally sick in a sanitarium. "There is no mystery," said Newsman Alexander Kislov at the U.N., at last getting down to Tass facts, "Vasily Stalin went to pieces after his father's death. It was a matter of drinking too much, poor fellow. He had to be sent to an institution. I heard he was still being treated the last time I was in Moscow...
...that he often spots in the Russian press before they are released to the world. At the few parties he attends, Zorza is often backed into corners by officials and fellow newsmen who unabashedly pick his brain. The highest compliment to his skill comes from the Russian news agency Tass, which picks up his every word and relays it promptly to Moscow...
...control of the armed forces but at the same time avoiding the risk of a public showdown. Communist newspapers in Europe blossomed out with obviously inspired stories that the marshal was slated for "an important new post." On the afternoon of Zhukov's return to Moscow, Tass and Radio Moscow reported his arrival with all the flowery detail they reserve for VIPs...
...accepted invitations to an Iranian embassy reception were twice obliged to postpone the hour of their arrival. When they finally did show up, all that came out of the Presidium was the curt announcement that Zhukov had been replaced as Defense Minister by Marshal Rodion Malinovsky. The Tass account of Zhukov's arrival shrank to three lines in next morning's edition of Pravda...