Word: unknown
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Unknown Man. On closer examination it was seen that the crafty Nikita had struck out 25 key industrial ministries in favor of control at regional levels, where his party hacks are strongest. Among those presumably to be abolished was the ministry of Khrushchev's predecessor and rival, the Ministry of Electric Power Stations, run by Georgy Malenkov, who set up and top-managed the Soviet industrial might in World War II and presumably speaks for the technocrat class...
...with Stalin's) that the issue was debated. In the Supreme Soviet four Deputies asked for changes. A government decree announced that Khrushchev's closest associate, Nikolai K. Baibakov, chairman of the Gosplan (top planning commission), had been demoted and replaced by Iosif I. Kuzmin, a complete unknown in the hierarchy of Soviet greats. Kuzmin was known only to have graduated from engine driver to boss of a Moscow experimental production plant. His modest history gave no hint of where he stood in the party power struggle except that he had been a functionary in the Moscow party...
VIRTUALLY unknown to the civilized world a century ago, Middle Africa sprawls forbiddingly across a full two-thirds of the earth's second largest continent, an area big enough to contain the entire U.S. with room to spare. On one side the hot Arab lands of North Africa are linked to Europe by more than 2,000 years of common history. At the other end descendants of 17th century Dutch settlers in the Union of South Africa boast a colonial past nearly as long as that of North America. But until the mid-19th century, Middle Africa was only...
Between the Sahara Desert's ocean of drifting sands on the north and Kipling's "great, grey-green, greasy" Limpopo River in this land unknown were geographical wonders to rival any in the world: great lakes as large as those in North America, rivers challenging in majesty the Amazon and Mississippi, crashing waterfalls higher and wider than Niagara, and snow-clad mountains on the equator's rim soaring skyward beyond any in Europe. And there today, in the limitless stretches of land over which these giants stood silent sentinel for centuries, is a whole new world...
Four Ways. Of all the European nations that gathered in Berlin in 1884 to divvy up the then still largely unknown and unexplored heart of Africa, the four principal powers now remaining have each pursued a different, and often faltering, path to the inevitable future. Pragmatic Britain, whose colonies range from the dense, forbidding forests of the west, where few whites live, to the Scottish-like highlands of the European settlers in the east, has tried to shape its policy to the complexities of each situation. With frequent glaring mistakes, often hastily rectified (e.g., the highhanded exile of Uganda...