Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Russian Desk also has a special reference library-starting with a complete set of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, whose 65 volumes were removed from Russia by one of our former Moscow bureau chiefs. The first of these useful volumes was printed in 1926, the last in 1947, and complete sets in U.S. private hands are rare. They are especially handy for documenting Soviet life and thought. Even the personal fortunes of the Russian editors of the first volume are instructive: all but one have died, been killed, imprisoned or have disappeared...
Gamely, Lucas announced that the first order of business would be statehood for Alaska. Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry, the Republican minority leader, set the tone for the opposition when he said his first order of business would be the ouster of Secretary of State Dean Acheson...
After two months of hunting, Harry S. Truman was still looking for a man-any man-to be his price stabilizer. The qualifications he set up for the $17,500-a-year job were modest enough. The President stipulated only that the candidate have the "guts" to take...
...though the job had been offered to more than a dozen men, there were no takers. The few who nibbled got away, well aware that the probable rewards of becoming price stabilizer were a set of ulcers and a head start towards becoming the most disliked...
Surprisingly enough, shooting caused the Crimson more trouble than anything else. The freshmen missed most of the few set shots they tried, and often had difficulty scoring from close in. But they moved the ball fairly well, and operated with a degree of unity surprising in a first game...