Word: ukrainians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delegates turned out to be top-drawer officials, ranging from a big collective-farm chairman to the boss of all Soviet farming, Acting Minister of Agriculture Vladimir Matskevich, 45, a suave, shaven-headed Ukrainian henchman of Communist Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev. Under the influence of Iowa's warm welcome and 90° heat, they quickly melted, shed their dark jackets, switched to shirtsleeves, straw hats and smiles. When someone complained about the heat, Matskevich stole Iowa's favorite reply: "Yes, but it's very good for the corn...
...quite incredible and in time become insupportable.'' complained New Zealand's delegate. Sir Carl Berendsen. Pakistan's Zafrullah Khan once talked for two days, and set a U.N. record. Britain's Selwyn Lloyd, listening to the same interminable speech by Soviet, Polish, Czech, Ukrainian and Byelo Russian delegates, remarked in Oxonian tones: "If I may lapse into the idiom of bebop, just dig that cracked record." Sometimes U.N. humor has been less intentional, as when Warren Austin advised the Arabs and the Jews to "settle this problem in a true Christian spirit...
...life was to paint pictures. To make a living while painting, he has tried his hand at some 40 different jobs. He came to the U.S. at the start of World War II, got an art teaching post at Vermont's Putney School three years later. Today his Ukrainian-born wife teaches modern languages at the school, while Gerassi paints in their two-room, picture-crammed cottage, or wanders over the Vermont hills...
...World War II Konev commanded the north flank of Zhukov's famous counterattack which thrust the Germans back from Moscow in December 1941. Assigned to the Kursk front, he commanded the Second Ukrainian Army, which breached the German defenses and liberated Belgorod and Kharkov. In 1944 he won his greatest victory at Korsun-Shevchenkovsky, where in mud and blizzard his Soviet force encircled and destroyed ten German divisions. From there he went on to force the Dnieper, the Bug and the Dniester, and after liberating North Moldavia, his troops crossed Poland and became the first Russians to reach...
Politics meant provoking German atrocities in order to disillusion the captive Ukrainian people with their German liberators and. as the Red army went forward, catching up with and liquidating Ukrainian nationalists and non-Soviet partisans. He came out of the war wearing the mark of that stony brutality which characterizes all the men who were around Stalin...