Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Soviet Russia's hierarchy, the tightest concentration of naked power in the world, a short, fat man from the southern Ural steppes named Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov now stands just a level below the eminences where Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov stand. He seems, in fact, to be pressing so hard on Comrade Number 2 that Western diplomats call him "Number...
Another former top-level diplomat had a similar remembrance: "Malenkov did not bother to talk with the guests. It seemed as though he resented just being there. You could not tell what sort of fellow he was. He did not drink too much, and he did not abstain-a calculating toyer with a glass. Always he wore that party uniform [a drab, high-collared tunic, once affected by Stalin], which went out long ago in Russia . . ." The diplomat paused. Then, spacing his words for emphasis, he continued: "I -would -hate -to -be -at -the -mercy -of -that...
Another reason for the dip, said Slichter, is that prices of farm products are "substantially" above the level where they are likely to remain...
...Houses will undergo no further deconversion, continuing their current level of one extra man for every two normally held. The decline in College enrollment will enable them to take a larger percentage of the Freshman Class than they could in previous years...
...hundred feet or so under College ground lies the Cambridge "water level". Those old timers of the of the local maintenance departments who have encountered it call it "Creeping Sam" because it has no fixed bounds and shows up where it is least wanted and expected...