Word: tensely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tens of thousands of slave laborers first heard the news from crewmen on cargo vessels plying Siberia's 2,800-mile-long Yenisei River: the Kremlin was downgrading late Dictator Stalin and rectifying the abuses of his regime. Counting themselves noteworthy victims of Stalinist repression, the prisoners (working on...
Helffrich went to work for NBC 23 years ago as a page boy. At the time, studio executives thought that the page boys, who were guiding tens of thousands of tourists around the Manhattan studios, lacked diplomacy. Helffrich, just out of Penn State, was appointed guide in charge of tact...
Nobody recognized the aging white-haired man who walked about Moscow, staring with rheumy eyes at the broad streets and tall buildings. He was Andrei Bubnov, one of the five top Bolsheviks to direct the October 1917 Revolution. As Lenin's Commissar of Education he had set out to...
Terrorist Lo had to warn his comrades, as recently as last July, against "boundless magnanimity." He regaled the National People's Congress with horror stories of the resisters still around, then dramatically asked: "Deputies, can any one of you be tolerant with these heinous and inhuman counterrevolutionaries? Can any...
The "Virgin Land" is Soviet propaganda's term for an unsettled stretch of central Siberian steppe, about the size of the two Dakotas, that Party Secretary Khrushchev grandiosely planned to put under wheat in just two seasons. Ploughs and tractors were brought hastily from the Ukraine. Tens of thousands...