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Word: wassil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...prison, you scoundrel!" (TIME, Nov. 13). By a long coincidence it was the dawn of the first anniversary of the Fire last week when Nazi jailers unlocked the underground vaults where still lay three defendants at that trial, all acquitted, all Bulgarians, all Communists: Dimitroff, Wassil Taneff and Blagoi Popoff. (The fourth defendant, Marinus van der Lubbe, was convicted and beheaded.) In haste and secrecy the three were hustled to a plane at Berlin's Tempelhof Field. In two long hops they were out of Nazi Germany and Göring's reach and into Communist Moscow arid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Three to Moscow | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

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