Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Every morning, the 93 Czechoslovak tourists went sightseeing in a group, returning to their simple hotel near Stockholm's docks for lunch. Afternoons were free, but few of the Czechoslovaks used them for sightseeing. Singly, or in small family groups, the tourists slipped away to local police stations to...
At first the tourists were afraid to discuss their plans with each other. Appearances to the contrary, they had not plotted their defection in a group before leaving Prague on the five-day, $170 Swedish tour. The idea had come to them individually, and each had kept it to himself...
Even before he was ousted for conspiring against Nikita Khrushchev in 1957, former Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov was not known for his dinner-table loquacity. Now nearing 80, Stalin's oldest colleague warmed up enough at a recent party to utter some pronouncements that had the ring of...
Four years later Stalin died, and in 1956 Nikita Khrushchev accused him of "intolerance, brutality and abuse of power." In 1962, Khrushchev ordered the publication of a novel by Alexander Solzhenitsyn that described the Soviet Union under Stalin's rule as one vast slave-labor camp. Stalin's...
Apprehensions and Rumors. This year Russians looked forward to Stalin's 90th birthday with none of the fabricated ardor of 1949, but with some apprehension. Dissidents warned that this decennial might be made the occasion for a full-scale rehabilitation of Stalin, and some feared that this would be...