Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Ousted from power in 1964, Nikita Khrushchev became a nonperson, living out his last seven years under virtual house arrest in the village of Petrovo- Dalneye, on the outskirts of Moscow. To keep himself going but also to make sure that his side of the story survived, Khrushchev dictated hundreds of hours of reminiscences. Many of the tapes were smuggled to the West, and Little, Brown published two volumes of memoirs: Khrushchev Remembers in 1970 and Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament...
...illustration of how desperate he was, Stalin tried to make a very secret approach to Hitler during the war. I think it was in 1942. Stalin wanted to reach an agreement that would let the Germans keep the territory they occupied in the Ukraine, Belorussia and even certain areas of the Russian Federation. One of our people was sent to Bulgaria and instructed to inform a German contact there that the Soviet Union was willing to make some territorial concessions. There was never any answer from Hitler. Apparently, he felt the Soviet Union's days were numbered. Why enter into...
...United Nations session. He was invited by Secretary of State Dean Rusk to Washington. Our position was neither to confirm nor to deny the presence of missiles, but in answer to a direct question, we would deny. Later we were accused of perfidy and dishonesty. Look who was making this accusation -- the U.S., which had us encircled with its own military bases! We were just copying the methods used by our adversaries. Besides, we had both a legal and moral right to make an agreement with Cuba...
...just scored a touchdown. I am nearly as fortunate. Like Jessica and the rest of the 20 new Franklin & Marshall students on my hall, I am attending a getting-to-know-you session called by my resident adviser -- a lanky upperclassman named Dan -- to introduce myself and make an attention- grabbing statement. I think I have a winner: I am 39 years old and I am going through freshman orientation on assignment for TIME. I needn't have wasted my breath. One look at my adult face and khaki shorts -- so dull compared with the colorful ersatz boxers in vogue...
...This is ridiculous," scoffs an athletically built freshman standing to one side of the mayhem. "My parents are spending $20,000 a year for this?" Moments later, he is engrossed in a finger-painting version of charades, his haughty disdain replaced by keen concentration as he tries to make his teammates guess what he is drawing...