Word: trud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Backed by four smoothly concocted "eyewitness" reports, Trud, Russia's official trade-union journal, landed a punch on United Auto Workers President Walter P. Reuther. Three of the "witnesses" were described as Reuther's shopmates when he put in a stint as a worker at the Gorky automobile plant in 1934; the fourth was a mysterious "N" who claimed to be his long-lost wife, described how Walter wooed her ("an inexperienced girl") with talk of "capitalist chains" and "bloodthirsty exploiters." After eight months of marriage, said she, "he said 'I am going to America...
Numerous challenges, too tempting to turn down, have set the CRIMSON off on a serious of weekend crew races with some of the world's finest boats, starting with the Moscow Trud Club heavies on the world's Volga tomorrow. These weekend intercontinental dashes will prevent the CRIMSON from publishing Saturdays during reading period...
...rugged decathlon*—:considered by many the toughest test of human endurance ever devised in sport. Russian men and women edged the U.S. 172-170 in their dual meet last week, and Soviet papers duly hailed the feat, but Rafe Johnson was the big hero. Said Moscow's Trud of his performance : "It will dignify the history of world athletic records for a long time to come...
...launched a gleaming cedar shell bought for them by U.S. admirers. But the long-legged Huskies, set to sail off with the Grand Challenge Cup, overlooked the heavily muscled Russians, who brought the same crew that narrowly lost to Cornell last year. Through a torrential thunderstorm Russia's Trud Club crew chopped off a snappy 37 strokes to the minute that gave them an immediate three-quarter-length lead. The Huskies started at 38, flagged to 31, lost by 1½ lengths. The rain-soaked Huskies glomped off to their tent without congratulating the victors. Then the Russians trounced...
America's other Henley hope, the University of Washington heavyweight crew, had been eliminated two days before the final by the Russian Trud (Labor) Crew which won the Grand Challenge...