Word: volga
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...Department of Hyperbole: Jenin-on-the-Volga...
...news columns - is an abscess of smug, unexamined left-wing assumption, which is just as unhealthy as smug, unexamined right-wing assumption. Both are a form of intellectual corruption - or maybe just narcolepsy. The Globe neither challenges itself nor surprises its readers. Its sclerotic liberalism trudges along, like the Volga boatman, dreaming its own dreams...
April J. Werner and Ben Bergstein, vendors from the Volga River Trading Company, sold products from Russia, Armenia and other eastern European countries. They had a large display of wooden nestling dolls called matryoshka, meaning "little mother" in Russian. They have been selling their products at the bazaar for four years...
...rich Western governments; if he rejects the bill now, even citing constitutional concerns, it will appear to Yeltsin's critics simply that he has taken a bribe. Faced with that quandary, Yeltsin gave Moscow a wide berth Friday and headed off instead to an elite holiday resort on the Volga, some 500 miles southeast of the capital...
Like Hitler, who insisted on a steady stream of musicals from the German studios, Stalin was a big fan of the genre; he saw Alexandrov's Volga, Volga (1938) 100 times. And busy as he was in 1933, supervising the forced starvation of 7 million Ukrainians, Stalin took time out to see The Jolly Fellows. It was his enthusiasm that overruled the censors' original...