Word: wholely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What goes on inside? Probably no one outside of the Politburo could tell the whole story, but the Russian writer Konstantin Zhikharev, ex-Red army major, has sketched in the outline in the new Russian-language Paris periodical, Narodnaya Pravda (The People's Truth). "The EKU," writes Zhikharev, "is divided into two main sections which direct political control of the whole domestic economy, and economic espionage throughout the world." The first maintains a secret police network covering all Russian economic enterprises, keeps all production statistics (which are state secrets), and administers forced labor. But the activities...
...Velandia beamed. But it went on & on, without regard for the fighting cocks roosting in a nearby tree. Casimiro grew nervous, then irritated, then thoroughly alarmed over the disturbed rest of his birds. "Stop the music!" he finally ordered. The serenaders refused; they had hired the musicians for the whole evening...
...minor domestic crisis at Amalienborg Palace. When the curtains in the valet's room caught fire, the agile monarch tore downstairs, threw a glass of water on the blaze, then doused it with a bucketful from the kitchen. To an admiring fire squad, he modestly shrugged the whole thing off: "Lucky thing I learned in my youth how to handle a pail of water...
Ingrid Bergman, who has credited her ruddy good health to a liking for "Baltic herrings and sour milk," got the kind of Christmas present that was obviously just what she wanted: a whole barrel of Baltic herrings, a gift from the Swedish fishery union...
...Over the whole program hangs the shadow of military security. Can Pitzer protect his men from the threat of attack (without hearing or recourse) on charges of disloyalty?* Unless he can reassure his colleagues on such points, AEC may have to get along with the skim milk of U.S. scientific talent...