Word: varna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faithful followers prepared to celebrate the august birthday. To Moscow journeyed the satraps to pay homage. Russia's state music publishing house issued 45 separate Stalin songs, bearing titles such as To the Great Stalin-Glory, Our Strength-Stalin, and You Are Our Hero. The Bulgarian city of Varna on the Black Sea reported that it had changed its name to Stalin. The Czechs sent word that they had renamed their highest mountain, Gerlachovka (8,737 ft.), Mt. Stalin...
...Bulgaria's Riviera, the season had been rather dazzling. At Varna, most fashionable of the Black Sea resorts, the crowning event was a bathing-beauty contest. A happy photograph of the winner and runners-up reached the U.S. last week...
...Sanatani Hindu, Gandhi accepts Varna (color), while disavowing the caste system, but stands by the concept of caste in marriage and the profession as the law of heredity. The principle of Swadeshi (home manufacture, i.e., spinning) is akin to the ancient Greek spirit of the hearth and Chinese ancestor worship. Satyagraha was coined by Gandhi from the words Saty (truth and love) and agraha (firmness) as the Hindu interpretation of soul force. Closely akin to this is Christ's admonition to "turn the other cheek...
...photograph of no less a Nazi seaman than Grand Admiral Erich Raeder conversing with Bulgarian officers. The Russian Government sent a sharp note accusing its old friend Bulgaria not only of harboring Axis army and air force units, but of letting Axis warships gather in the ports of Varna and Burgas (on the Black Sea) and Ruschuk (on the Danube...
...Moscow, the Soviet Union signed with Bulgaria, most Pan-Russian and most dissatisfied Balkan State, a "trade and navigation" treaty. Bulgarian rice, hides, tobacco, rose oil are to be exchanged for agricultural machinery, fertilizer, chemicals, cellulose. A Soviet-Bulgarian shipping line will probably be opened between Odessa and Varna. Not overly important in itself, the treaty nevertheless gives the Bolsheviks a friend in the Balkans...