Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russian literature, a powerful weapon in the Russian people's struggle for liberation from the Czars, was plunged into confusion after the establishment of the Soviet state. Many famous authors (Kuprin, Bunin) went into exile voluntarily; disillusionment led others (Yesenin, Mayakovsky) to suicide. To give literature drive and direction, and broaden its appeal, the party formed the Union of Soviet Writers, headed by famed Maxim Gorky. But Gorky's optimistic ideas about "socialist realism" did not suit Stalin. The dictator found his man in Fadeyev, the steely-eyed...
...more firepower. Forged into a unit by its communications system and far-ranging missilry, it could disperse itself over an ocean area the size of Indiana, so that even if its shield were pierced, not more than one of its ships could be knocked out by any one existing weapon. As the admirals see it, that task force could appear on a given afternoon off any enemy coast, rain atomic-or thermonuclear-destruction, disperse rapidly, pop up the next afternoon to strike 600 miles away. With its extreme mobility on its ocean-wide base, the Navy could, at last, fight...
...commandant's answer was to pull a pistol on the delegates, killing one. But before he could fire again the delegation had disarmed him, shot him dead with his own weapon. Word spread through Mirnoye and to two nearby camps. Prisoners revolted, disarmed the guards. On April 4 MVD security troops from the Arctic Circle towns of Norilsk and Igarka, armed with heavy machine guns, fought a battle with armed prisoners. Some 200 prisoners and twelve guards were killed. When prison order was restored, an estimated 80 prisoners were found to have escaped into the desolate countryside...
...will were embarrassed by the Hiss case." Does being "men of good will" necessitate defending Hiss against Nixon before the facts were in (like Acheson and Stevenson), and then, after Hiss was proved a perjurer and traitor, continue attacking Nixon because he "used the subversion issue as a political weapon"? Maybe such subtle Ivy League logic is too refined for us coarse Westerners; maybe that's why New Dealish defenders of the common man, as Graham plus A.D.A. plus Stevenson, are rightly distrusted by the common...
...their farewell press conference in Britain, B. & K. openly ridiculed the disarmament subcommittee. Bulganin hinted that it might better have been called the "subcommittee on concealing the arms race." When someone asked whether the Soviet Union would allow inspection teams to check Russian nuclear-weapon stocks, Khrushchev said jauntily: "Our comrade Gromyko has gone grey answering questions like that." Since there is not a grey hair in Gromyko's head, this got a laugh. Khrushchev then said: "It is my prophecy he will become grey by the time they agree...