Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Probably none of Russia's subs can yet match the U.S. Polaris missile subs' ability to fire from a submerged position, and the missiles they carry are presumed to be only short-range (300 miles) land-type types installed on regular subs whose conning towers were enlarged to...
The late-at-night knock on the door supposedly has disappeared in Russia. But who can be sure? Hearing the knocks, householders admitted grim-faced men flashing badges and search warrants. In Moscow the family of one Nina Ivanovna was brusquely told that Nina had been arrested at her job...
On trial in a Moscow district court, Voskonian and his gang got help of a sort from those they had robbed. Nina Ivanovna and her mother insisted that the stolen bag contained only 100,000 rubles, not 250,000. Furrier Aleksandrov estimated his loss at a mere 45,000 rubles...
Bonn, complains one longtime German diplomat, is "not a capital but a form of capital punishment." A guidebook once described the foggy little university town (1946 pop. 94,694), the birthplace of Beethoven, as "a favorite resting place for retired officials in the evening of their lives." Lacking first-line...
When Chancellor Konrad Adenauer picked Bonn as temporary headquarters for the new federal republic of West Germany, it was supposed to serve only until Germany was reunified and Berlin restored as the rightful capital. In fact, its provisional character became a symbol of West Germans' refusal to acquiesce in...