Word: tovarish
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...Tovarish. Mobs crowded Nob Hill in San Francisco to cheer Khrushchev as he arrived at his hotel. Happily he waved back, reappeared at his hotel window to bask in the spontaneous welcome. "You have charmed me," he glowed at a civic dinner-and added, without the customary clangor, "but you have charmed my heart, not my mind. I still think that our system is a good system...
...less like a Red Army officer and more and more like a Freudian interpretation of Ivan Skavinsky Skivar. Back in town, the major-hero toasts the heroine in vodka, then chews up the glass as a chaser, superbly indifferent to the blood that dribbles down his chin. Ekh, Tovarish! What does a man care for such scratches when his heart is bleeding-and not only from the wounds of love. The major's heart is bleeding for all those dead Hungarians: "I know my men. They love these people...
Clenched Fists. As the crowd came up, half a dozen sailors watched glumly from the Pozharsky's deck. Two of them planted themselves in warning at the head of the gangplank. Most of the women stopped singing, but Palmira, undiscouraged, waved her carnations and shouted, "Tovarish, Tovarish, Tovarish Stalin." The Russians continued to stare blankly and, for a moment, her voice began to break. Then she beamed and raised her arm in the clenched fist salute. At last the Russians answered. They raised their right arms-with hands held open. "No, no," howled Palmira's followers...
...wall hung a picture of Stalin. With passionate feeling and extravagant gesture a schoolboy declaimed an epic poem in praise of Tovarish Stalin. This happened in Washington...
Stalin led the applause. Then a hand-picked audience of some 2,000 artists, scientists and party stalwarts again & again shouted: "Da zdravstvuet Tovarish Stalin!-Long life to Comrade Stalin!" Stalin again applauded, most earnestly...