Word: trud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Children, Pravda complained, are especially vulnerable to these dangerous doctrines. The Literary Gazette complained that farmers in the province of Kirov had recently been allowed to abandon their fields for a three-day religious festival that was "only an excuse for drinking." And the trade-union paper, Trud, demanded that the government close down a spring near Moscow that has been attracting thousands (including even some Soviet bigwigs) to its "healing waters...
Last week the men of State learned how naive they had been. In Moscow the Russian government announced that it was expelling two assistant U.S. attachées, Lieut. Colonel Howard Felchlin (Army) and Major Walter McKinney (Air), for "espionage work." The Soviet newspaper Trud had accused them of spying on a train trip across Siberia eleven months ago. After the Moscow announcement, State Department officials rushed forward to announce that they had done the first expelling, albeit secretly, and that Moscow's action was obviously retaliation...
...deal," first trumpeted in Moscow's Trud and later echoed by Tass, was the 3-3 ice-hockey tie between the U.S. and Canada. The result, as it happened, assured Canada the Olympic title, moved the U.S. to second place (up from fourth) and forced Czechoslovakia into a third-place play-off-which it lost to Sweden. The Russians, looking after Little Brother Czechoslovakia, figured the tie was no mere accident. In effect, they were crying that ugly three-letter word all too familiar to Western sport fans...