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Last week's angriest demonstration occurred in Winnipeg, where a group of Ukrainian-Canadians gathered at the gates of the airport when the Russians landed. When a car with four husky passengers drove out, the crowd surged around it. Men and women screamed epithets in Russian, someone flung a black mourning wreath ("For Brothers Murdered By Bolsheviks"), and a husky demonstrator poked his fist through one of the car windows before word got around that the passengers were not Russians at all, but Mounties in civilian clothes. After that, the forewarned welcoming committee whisked the Russians through a side...
Desserts: Ukrainian cherry dumplings, ice cream, sugar buns, apricots, oranges, raspberries and apples...
Throughout the meals, collective farm-girls plied the farmers with vodka, Georgian champagne and sweet wine, Moldavian muscatel, Ukrainian riesling, Armenian cognac and beer. "During the meal at least a dozen toasts are drunk to world peace, Soviet-American friendship, the exchange of ideas, and to women of both countries," reported New York Times Correspondent Welles Hangen. "Thereafter it is open season for anyone to propose a toast to almost anything except war, Fascism and mass destruction." But as for Soviet agriculture, one member of the U.S. delegation remarked: "In general it seems to me that the living standard...
...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...