Word: bureaucrats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old wife of plump, jovial Eddy Gilmore, the A.P.'s Moscow Bureau chief, now on leave in the U.S. It took a cable from Wendell Willkie to Joseph Stalin to make their marriage possible. Tamara Chernashova was a dancer in Moscow's famous ballet until some bureaucrat transferred her so that she would not see too much of the American reporter. (Their two-year-old daughter is named Victoria Wendell...
...good bureaucrat needs to be happy is a bureau-any bureau. Not understanding this universal law of nature, Moscow s Komsomolskaya Pravda waxed wroth last week at a bureaucrat named Bylinkin who could just as well have worked in Omsk, Tomsk or Washington...
Andrei A. Gromyko was the Russian bureaucrat, stern, stubborn, suspicious. The dark, youngish (38) ambassador spoke in a monotone, looking neither to right nor left, as though talking into space or lecturing, as he used to before a Russian class in economics. He talked in Russian; at previous conferences he used English. He repeated himself; twelve times he used the phrase "postpone consideration of the question until the loth of April." He evaded rather than answered questions...
Shock-haired, 45-year-old Sam Allison, director of the new Institute of Nuclear Studies, said that the Manhattan Project had ruined him by turning him from a good research worker into a bureaucrat. Said he: "Scientists want to publish their work so that it will do the most good for mankind. The Army wants to pay us to produce things, and keep quiet...
...less to bequeath, but as his doomsday drew near, Adolf Hitler dictated a last will and political testament. The document, discovered by U.S. Army Intelligence in the suitcase of a minor Nazi bureaucrat, was made public last week...