Word: ukrainians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dutch, and the U.N. Commission for Indonesia, whose conciliatory work had been at least in part responsible for the birth of the new nation. But the Russians cast their 42nd and 43rd veto in the Council to block the congratulatory messages. During the debate on the matter, the Ukrainian delegate boasted that Communist guerrillas in Indonesia had launched a new offensive against Soekarno's republic. For Indonesians, as Soekarno himself had put it: "Things are not yet all moonlight and roses...
When Rutgers University needed to save some money during the war winter of 1941-42, a budget official had a bright idea: Why not fire Selman Waksman, an obscure Ukrainian-born microbiologist who was getting $4,620 a year for "playing around with microbes in the soil?" That sort of fun & games, the moneyman pointed out, had never really paid...
What Is Life? Selman Abraham Waksman, famed U.S. expert at stirring up civil war among the bugs, was born in 1888 in the little Ukrainian village of Priluka, go miles from Kiev. His father Jacob spent most of his time making copper kitchenware in the nearby town of Vinnitsa, and young Selman was brought up almost entirely by his mother Fradia...
...hard enough-brought a huge hammer crashing down on the head of a fat capitalist dummy in frock coat and top hat. For less athletic comrades, Unità made its points more subtly, in exhibits of socio-political art and Russian literature. An elderly Russian woman in a lacy Ukrainian peasant blouse stood by the book exhibit. A young associate explained: "Mrs. Jakobs is here on purpose to translate the Russian writings into Italian for the comrades. If a comrade asked her, she could translate a whole book...
...distant figure of runaway Communist Gerhart Eisler which agitated the Assembly. Poland's Juliusz Katz-Suchy asked the Assembly to conduct an inquiry into Eisler's rights of political asylum. The Assembly voted against allowing discussion of the Eisler case. During the balloting the Ukrainian delegate mistakenly lined up against Katz-Suchy. "You see," snapped Poland's Katz-Suchy at Assembly President Herbert Evatt, "that just shows you no one knows what we are voting...