| 单词 | Russian |
| 例句 | Recently he was a soldier and was sent to the Russian front, where he was wounded by shrapnel. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Not until I saw an American or Russian tank rolling down the road. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z It was unnerving to hear: as bad as things were, few Americans wanted to go down the Russian path. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z A first-rate Russian might easily abscond to the more affluent West. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z It was Russian and it was in space. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z For Bobby, it was a chance to gorge himself on Russian history and culture. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “How many times have you heard a Russian speak English?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Butler had seen that pose before—on the snouts of starved pit bulls, just before their Russian handlers set them loose on a bear hunt. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The beaches are devouring men—Americans, Canadians, Brits, Germans, Russians—and all through Normandy, heavy bombers pulverize country towns. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z As a result of the publicity about his schooling, or lack thereof, Fischer was beginning to be thought of as a nyeculturni by the Russians, unschooled and uncultured, and they began to tease him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Importantly, though, for all his rough edges, Mussorgsky showed that Russian music could obey its own rules, follow its own tastes and carve its own identity. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z With so many Russian women joining the army as foot soldiers so they could fight in World War I, it’s no surprise that several of Russia’s first female aviators also went to war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I stood in the forest cellar, my gun fixed on the dead Russian. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Truman brushed this worry aside, asking: “When will the Russians be able to build the bomb?” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of waiting for the British or the Americans or the Russians to save us, we should be saving ourselves. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Fischer guffawed when he heard of it and said that he’d been expecting rougher tactics from the Russians. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z By December 1942, as another harsh Russian winter began to settle in, the Soviets managed to get the German army surrounded at Stalingrad. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z When she yelled, it was no longer in Russian. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “I have come with forty of my men,” said the Russian. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the Russian Revolution, about 80 percent of the population were peasants who worked in the fields like their medieval ancestors. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z "I found that the majority of the workers employed at all plants were either prisoners of war or German military prisoners or Russians," Dasch said. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z And then Russians came on motorcycles, and they arrested everybody but the horses. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The Russian out of his mouth was thick with an accent, but it was still intelligible. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The Russian is still talking when Werner pulls his headset down around his neck. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Bentley told all: She named names, exposed her Russian contacts, and painted a shocking picture of a vast communist conspiracy operating in the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z As the Russian spacecraft streaked toward the moon, I went up on the Club House roof to use Jake’s telescope just to see what I could see. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Americans and Russians now lived with the real possibility that nuclear war might happen at any time, and with almost no warning. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I admired the speed the entire Korean team seemed to have and how fearless the Russians were no matter who was on the other side of the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Despite Farmer being upbeat with the prisoners, and the heroic efforts of the Russian medical staff, he and Goldfarb knew things were not getting better. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z At times they were in favour and received privileges ordinary Russians would have marvelled at; at others their continued survival as professional composers hung by a thread. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z When a spectator from Moscow asked for an autograph, Bobby signed it using the Russian Cyrillic alphabet, needing to change only a few letters. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The Russians had built atomic and hydrogen bombs, and they had jet bombers that could reach the United States. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z On April 12,1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became in one fell swoop the first human in space and the first human to orbit Earth. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Javier wrote her a long letter after his father died three years ago, and said he’d finally become a professor of biochemistry at the University of Prague, lecturing in Russian, German, and Czech. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Quisqueya was wearing her fur hat on her head, which I always thought made her look Russian. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Danny’s block was heavily populated by the followers of his father, Russian Hasidic Jews in somber garb, whose habits and frames of reference were born on the soil of the land they had abandoned. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Even in those early postwar years, Harvey distinguished himself with "an excellent knowledge of Russian espionage and Communist activities," according to a former colleague. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It’s a Russian link to her brother, it’s European, South American. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “I am leaving!” he announced curtly, with the bearing of a Russian count, informing Fischer and Schmid that he was going to the stage to play the game there. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z And then he asked me, “Have you met the Russians?” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Russian Mafia did not take too kindly to a Westerner muscling in on their market, and so decided to send a little message. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z In 1890, for example, if you’d asked most educated people in the West to name a famous living composer, they would very likely have given you that of a Russian, Pyotr Tchaikovsky. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z But the Germans were unprepared for the severe Russian winter, where temperatures fall to subzero. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z She would appear to be a person who would be ideologically motivated to be of assistance to the Russians. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Hans Scholl found himself in trouble when his leaders heard him playing a favorite Russian folk song on his guitar. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “They say wounded soldiers will be brought via train if the railways are still operating. Several claim the Russians have already bombed the entire track.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I replace the word gays from her sentence with these other words: blacks, Hispanics, immigrants, women, people of mixed race, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Gypsies, Russians, Poles, Yugoslavians, Ukrainians, mentally and physically disabled. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Jutta hears that grandmothers are rubbing granddaughters with feces, sawing off their hair with bread knives, anything to make them less appealing to the Russians. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Now I understand. She clings to you because you saved her from the Russian in the forest. You’re proof that there are still good men in the world.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She was born into a family of musicians in Moscow, the second-largest city of the Russian Empire after Saint Petersburg. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Would we never catch up to the Russians in space? October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The Russian soldier stared at me, mouth open, eyes empty. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z On one occasion, he was asked to translate Russian reports from a Soviet diplomat being recruited by the CIA in Bogotá, Colombia. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The next time they tried, the politicians and editorial writers worried, the Russians might hit it and then what kind of world would we live in? October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z As one of his final acts, Gorbachev passed the Soviet nuclear codes—which could initiate a nuclear missile launch—to Boris Yeltsin, the president of the Russian Federation. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But since both men were Russian that made no sense. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Since when did you start drinking tea like a Russian?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She didn’t mind at all and was, in fact, delighted that he was learning some Russian. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z As they were playing they began to talk, and they realized they had many things in common and that playing Russian roulette to settle a beef between their gangs was stupid. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The young woman winced at the mention of the Russian. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z One of the drunk Russian guys woke up and sat listening intently too. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The Russian soldier’s grin never faltered when he heard the translation. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The Russians insisted that a lighting fixture above the stage be taken apart to see if there was an electronic device hidden there that might be affecting Spassky’s play. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Icelanders read more books per capita than any other people on the globe, and—like the Russians—they almost all play chess. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z By April, the women speak only of the Russians and the things they will do, the vengeance they will seek. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The usual crazy rumors: massed artillery and Russian tanks and whole divisions of fresh troops. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Soviet” is derived from a Russian word for “assembly” or “council.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I was particularly taken with the portrait of General Kutuzov, whom everyone at the Russian court underestimated. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At the ballet, in operas, on the concert stage, lilting, driving, whirling, tiptoeing, leaping, gliding, jumping, gyrating and twirling, Russian music can’t get enough of it. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “Any sick in here?” he said in Russian. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Even then his politics were being formed, his anti-communism, his distrust of the Russians. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “The newspapers and television say the Russian students are the best in the world,” he said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z As White House advisors had anticipated, the Russian announcement, for all its cynicism, was an enormous propaganda victory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The Russian and German concessions had been officially returned to China, but the people still called them concessions. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980s: that Afghans are an independent people. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The day after the Russian banner first appeared, the new District of Columbia police superintendent, Raymond W. Pullman, visited Alice Paul. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The blond guard pulled the door open, bellowed something in Russian and pushed us inside. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He escaped from the Russian army and snuck over the Polish border and married my mother in an arranged marriage. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But no Proto-Indo-European word can be reconstructed for “gun,” which uses different roots in different modern Indo-European languages: “gun” in English, “fusil” in French, “ruzhyo” in Russian, and so on. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A Russian television crew showed up to try to interview Fischer, and he fled. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z At dawn on April 28, the Russian tanks approached, and the boys opened fire. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Only Russian women went directly into battle to fight and kill other human beings. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z But Penelope’s reverie about the Imperial Russian Ballet was soon drowned out by the ruckus of two ruddy-cheeked servants careening dangerously around the nursery, while the children stamped their feet to keep time. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z She tells of how a famous Russian pilot and a triple Hero of the Soviet Union, A. I. Pokryshkin, landed at the airfield to refuel his fighter plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “Then he did French for an hour. Then he studied Russian. Then he would read philosophy. He did that religiously, every day.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z And the dead soldiers posing in the shop windows were Russians now, propped up with broomsticks, their faces painted with swastikas. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “Davai!” yelled the guard, along with a series of Russian expletives before he spit on me. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “I thought you Russians all had ice water for blood.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z That night the house, which was used as a meeting place and recreation center by Russian immigrants, was filled with more than two hundred men and boys attending night school. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Of course his aunt would not have done the same thing with a blond Russian. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z As the winner of the second board he also won a Russian car, the Moskvich. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Argentinean players were as enthusiastic about the game as the Russians and the Yugoslavs, and Bobby was treated with respect wherever he went. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But questions pirouetted around Penelope’s mind faster than even the ballerinas of the Imperial Russian Ballet could have managed: Who had requested these awful stories about children and wolves? The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Not only is it a perfectly respectable Bengali good name, meaning “he who is entire, encompassing all,” but it also bears a satisfying resemblance to Nikolai, the first name of the Russian Gogol. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Some man came by to see Lice last night,” she said, “just before he ran off. A big bald-headed guy with a weird foreign accent—French or Russian or something.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Taimanov arrived with a full Russian entourage: a second, an assistant, and a match manager, but even with all the help, he was, nevertheless, helpless. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Then Constantin and the Russian girl interpreter and the whole bunch of black and white and yellow men arguing down there behind their labeled microphones seemed to move off at a distance. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z In London and Paris in the ensuing months, they could keep their eyes open for KGB trails and interview the Russian spy at length. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z A Russian minister, Sergei Pavlov, head of the State Sports Committee, had cabled Spassky, furiously insisting that he return home to Moscow. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The streets of Russian cities were filled with homeless children Marina’s age who hadn’t been as lucky as her. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z As the Russians advanced, his Hitler Youth battalion was sent to dig trenches at the front line, now just thirty miles east of Berlin. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The two men had recently been to the Soviet Union, where the talk was that the Russians were considering sending a woman into space. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z “Excuse me?” he said in a thick Russian accent. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z It was such a high priority, they code named the project “Enormoz”—Russian for “enormous.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Wet dirt, filled chamber pots, birch tar used to treat expensive Russian leather, scorched hair, sea brine. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Stalingrad, the Russian city that has been under attack for three months, still hasn’t fallen into German hands. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Still alive, he was captured by the Russians. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He hated the Germans, he hated Americans, he hated the Russians, but he just couldn’t stand the Irish. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In exchange, the Agency offered him a new life, even taking him to Montreal to meet with his Russian girlfriend, who had traveled there with the CIA's help. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Now they hoped to hold out long enough so that the Americans would reach them before the Russians. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Just as American history is the story of how our continent’s expanse became American, Russia’s history is the story of how Russia became Russian. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Andrei had surreptitiously taken a photograph of Bobby at a New Year’s Eve dinner party and sent it to Shakhmatny Bulletin, the Russian chess magazine. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The German army wasn't prepared for the brutally cold Russian winter. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The Russian soldier thrust his face into the rear of the truck. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In the plane we talked about the Russians, among other things. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Aerial ramming—or, in Russian, taran—was a desperate tactic to be undertaken as a last resort. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He had spoken to me in Russian as though he had known the language, not tentatively, but with purpose and a hint of mockery. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The men looked strange, certainly not Lithuanian or Russian. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z On Monday, Ryan finds me in the hall and walks me to Russian literature. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z By the next morning, East German and Russian technicians had pushed all the way through to the eastern end of the tunnel itself. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Their work did not receive much attention until October 4, 1957, when the Russians launched Sputnik, the first man-made satellite in history. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, William Faulkner rewrote the Russian sequence of the film and typed up the full screenplay. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I thought a lot about the Russian system, which only considers people to be cosmonauts after they have made a space flight, not before. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a small Russian man, with a ruddy complexion and a full head of grayish hair. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Rabi was worried about the Russian explosion, too, and liked our plans,” he wrote later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I don’t often write about the political situation, but I must tell you where the Russians are at the moment. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The sharp clap of Russian boots passed and faded on the sidewalk. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z It turns out that the schooner is a Russian from Varna, and is called the Demeter. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The Germans feared that the Russians would avenge Hitler’s double-crossing and the atrocities inflicted upon the Russian people by the German soldiers. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The United States still had many military facilities in Europe; when I earned ratings of fluent in German, Polish, and Russian, I expected to be stationed in Germany or Poland. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The government's top brass wanted to hear directly from Marti about their most precious Russian spy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I remembered two Russian soldiers who had looted a clock factory. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z There was whispering from one bunk to the other; with a little luck, the Russians would be here before the evacuation. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The Russian Imperial capital of St Petersburg had, by the end of the nineteenth century, become one of the greatest musical centres in the world. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Named Freedom, this small space station will be an international effort, with help from the Europeans, Japanese, Canadians, and Russians. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z For his part, Bobby never explained what either Karpov or Kasparov had to gain from prearranging match results, except to keep the title in the Russian family. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “There are Americans I’m a lot more afraid of than the Russians,” Dad said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Hacked off the fingers of dead Russians and smoked them in a pipe. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The Russians would kill me or take me hostage. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He would read about the Russians moving into Korea and grumble that if the Americans occupied Japan there’d be another war within ten years, maybe five. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z He spoke of the brotherhood between the American and the Russian people, and how those two nations were going to crush the disease of Nazism, which wanted to infect the whole world. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He needed just two draws or one win out of the remaining four games to wrest the title from the Russian, and from Russia. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He was home in a sling the day the Russians arrived. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “We’re Lithuanian,” said Mother, first speaking in Lithuanian arid then in Russian. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z For much of the journey, the teenager has been reading a paperback copy of Anna Karenina for a class in Russian literature. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Ye need help?” he said, his strangely accented Russian reaching her ears on a heat wave that smelled of fire and metal. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z If he couldn't track down Russian spies and bring them to trial, perhaps he could flush them out into the open. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Although he knew some Russian, Bobby had trouble with the declensions and usage. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z His fields stretched from northern Iran into Azerbaijan, which, at the time, was a part of the Russian Empire. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Where was the Russian submarine that had torpedoed the ship? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z There were journals in English, French, German, Russian, Italian, and even one collection in Chinese. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Grim reminders of it were strewn along the road: burned carcasses of old Soviet tanks, overturned military trucks gone to rust, a crushed Russian jeep that had plunged over the mountainside. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z On December 21, 1919, the Russians, together with fifty other people who had been sentenced to deportation, were herded together on an ancient army transport ship named the Buford. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Her head snapped away from the dead Russian. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z When Cox and Cobb seemed to grow skeptical, the Russian man launched into a story that grabbed their attention. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z If the Russian secret police knew what I was about to do..., she thought, checking the hallway to see if she had been followed. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z George Kisevalter, a CIA agent who had worked in the Soviet bloc, managed to determine the Russian man's identity from clues in the doctored photograph. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t just stand there eavesdropping, Frick, move! You want to be blown up by a Russian plane?” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He exhaled, letting out a string of Russian expletives. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Just before Spassky left Reykjavik, Bobby had delivered to the Russian at his hotel an amiable letter and a gift-wrapped camera as a token of friendship. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z We were formed in ranks, with Russian soldiers guarding us—Englishmen, Americans, Dutchmen, Belgians, Frenchmen, Canadians, South Africans, New Zealanders, Australians, thousands of us about to stop being prisoners of war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I was literally overwhelmed when, in reading the works of Russian revolutionists, I came across descriptions of the “holiday energies of the masses,” “the locomotives of history,” “the conditions prerequisite for revolution,” and so Forth. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z If so, then the culprits were still at large—and still able to steal American nuclear secrets and pass them on to the Russians. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z As a Russian, Boukreev came from a tough, proud, hardscrabble climbing culture that did not believe in coddling the weak. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z There were more starving Russians with faces like radium dials. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The Russians and the Americans ran to the base of the ladder as the policeman descended with his discovery: “Two dead flies!” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Permian recalls the former Russian province of Perm in the Ural Mountains. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He was a tall man, though not so tall as Captain Orlov, and he stood with his bare shoulders thrown back, thinking about what the Russian had said. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z At disarmament talks, moreover, he had developed the disturbing habit of offering the Russians concessions that had not been approved by the president or Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Fischer, playing brilliantly with the black pieces the next day, won his first game ever against the Russian, a former World Champion. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z At 5:00 p.m., as the storm intensified, the Russian headed up alone to attempt to save him. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Around her, the Red Army of Lenin’s Bolshevik Party was fighting to crush opposition groups that sprang up after the fall of the Russian Empire. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He wrote, “The system set up by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs...insures that there will always be a Russian world champion....The Russians arranged it that way.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Unknown to the boys, the relief army would never come: It had already been destroyed by the Russians. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The Russians are fighting bitterly and bravely, but only Helmuth seems to know. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z “Ausziehen,” Volkheimer will say, his breath pluming out in front of him, and almost every time, the big Russian will understand. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “There are more chests on the ship,” said the Russian. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “Both books are about a Russian peasant, around the turn of the century,” he said, in what was, for his implacably matter-of-fact voice, a rather narrative tone. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z They would inevitably surface within a rectangle of barbed wire, would find themselves greeted listlessly by dying Russians who spoke no English, who had no food or useful information or escape plans of their own. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He was wearing an enormous Russian fur hat, complete with earflaps, which he had pulled down. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Camp rumors were insistent that Hitler’s government was starting to collapse and Russian troops were moving toward Germany. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Before World War I was over, four other Russian women’s regiments formed based on Maria Bochkareva’s battalion, along with many smaller units. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z In Parade magazine, journalist Jack Anderson said that the only way an American woman would make it into space would be as a guest of a Russian lady cosmonaut. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z She brushed rain-caked dirt off it, surprised to read Russian there. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z We were ushered into a mustard-colored office where Russian doctors, health specialists, and government leaders were waiting for us. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z In front of Russian television cameras, the vice minister of justice, in charge of Russia’s prisons, would announce PIH’s new role in Tomsk. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z It had been Cyrillic, the script that Russian and Ukrainian were written in. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Before he made contact with the Russian, however, Saxe had to learn how to handle something much more delicate: the T-50 subminiature camera, a tiny device fitted inside a brand-name pen. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Bobby chimed in with an equally vicious slur, again using what had happened as typical of Russian machinations. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Poland was split right down the middle, and the Germans and Russians had promised not to fight each other. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Tal asked Bobby if he’d ever gone to the opera, and when Bobby burst into the refrain from “The March of the Smugglers,” from Bizet’s Carmen, the Russian was temporarily silenced. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The men spoke Russian in front of her and clearly had no idea that she understood the language. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z When, in 1917, the Bolsheviks gained control of the Russian government, they installed a Communist form of government. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I feel her on me and I want her right now in her little Russian army outfit. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z I overheard him telling Baba how he and his brother knew the Russian and Afghan soldiers who worked the checkpoints, how they had set up a “mutually profitable” arrangement. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z What trouble the Russians had made for him. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Bobby loved languages and, in addition to being fluent in Spanish, was becoming adept at Russian and German. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Working for the Soros Foundation, a privately funded philanthropy organization, Goldfarb had been focusing on a very specific health crisis—a hundred thousand inmates in Russian prisons with active TB. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Certainly, Bobby didn’t help himself with a postcard he sent to Collins: “I don’t like Russian hospitality and the people themselves. It seems they don’t like me either.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Western Europe has evolved or acquired about 40 languages just in the 6,000-8,000 years since the arrival of Indo-European languages, including languages as different as English, Finnish, and Russian. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In his library, he collected various Russian-English dictionaries and, also, books on Russian grammar and conversation. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z No need to wave at the Russian planes above, you see. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z They were alerted of a Russian approach—maybe someone at the door or a sound from outside. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z A Russian official ticked off the charges against her. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “No. This is Patzinakia. Why would the sign be in Russian?” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z After all, they can’t let the Russians do all the dirty work; actually, the Russians aren’t doing anything at the moment either. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z A Russian prince condescended to sit in a corner for an hour and talk with a massive lady, dressed like Hamlet’s mother in black velvet with a pearl bridle under her chin. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Billy Pilgrim says he went to Dresden, Germany, on the day after his morphine night in the British compound in the center of the extermination camp for Russian prisoners of war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The Russians led Powers to a nearby car, and then drove him along a bumpy, muddy road to what he assumed was a police station. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The truth was, at that moment Dorothy scared me a lot more than a billion Russians, and I didn’t know why. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Five thousand seven hundred Russians killed, forty-five Germans lost. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The Russian is reading what sounds like letters of the alphabet. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Originally operated by the Russian Air Force, Star City is now under the control of Roscosmos, the Russian Space Agency. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z “She’ll hustle the best deals. Her Russian is probably pretty good by now.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z One would say something in Czech and another would translate into Russian, and another would translate into something else. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z There were more ruins now, after the Russians’ bombing. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Her voice was breathy with just a hint of a Russian accent. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z In 1917 the Russian Revolution had put an end to an empire that was centuries old and, after years of civil war, replaced it with a new system of government called communism. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Nearly a decade would pass before the United States regained the know-how or the will to launch espionage operations on Russian soil. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But most of all he loved the Russians. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Even though Goldfarb represented the Russian Ministry of Justice, which ran the prisons, Farmer was warned explicitly to keep Alex away from the meetings. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z When he spotted three Russian tanks, he shot at them with his Panzerfaust from behind a cellar door. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Had he fallen into Russian hands, he would have proven invaluable to them.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m five minutes late to Russian literature, where Mrs. Ma- hone and her wig assign us a ten-page paper on The Brothers Karamazov. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z His idea was to offer the Russians a two-year moratorium on nuclear testing, with compliance to be verified by eight to twelve monitoring stations on each country’s territory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z For socks, they had to wear portyanki foot wraps, squares of linen cloth like those used in the Russian army since the seventeenth century. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z All the cold first months of 1945, rumors persisted that Russian troops were getting closer. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z I’m looking in every newspaper, book and document I can find for the family trees of the French, German, Spanish, English, Austrian, Russian, Norwegian and Dutch royal families. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He spoke to her in Russian, and she nodded and took a glass and filled it with hot tea from the samovar. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The Agency was still smaller than its Russian counterpart, and its agents had to train hard to learn the techniques of spycraft—which Soviet operatives had been mastering for decades. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Regardless of Lilya’s fashion sense, the bottom line was that her feet needed to be protected from the below-zero Russian winter cold. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z But the Russians hadn’t come yet, even two days after the war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z March: The Red Scare begins when Vladimir Lenin starts a revolution in Russia that changes the Russian government to Communism. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The Russian troops could see from their appearance what they had been through and were kind to them, but they had only a little bread to give them. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Sergei Diaghilev, art, dance and music lover, saw in this upsurge of Russian cultural pride an opportunity. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I reached into my pack and retrieved the Russian soldier’s gun. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z There are just so many humans, as if huge Russian factories cast new men every minute. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z That was the year that pogroms had spread across the Russian Empire, the year my father and mother had realized our time in Europe was limited. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She used to talk about the Czar or the Kaiser and how the Russian soldiers would come into the village and line up the Jews and shoot them in cold blood. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z As they crossed Moskvoretsky Bridge, spanning the Moskva River, the Russian man joined them, striking up a conversation in shaky English. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I hated the sound of the Russian language. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Long hair, often braided into crowns, was stylish with Russian women of the time. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The Russians were censuring his behavior in front of his friends and the world press. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The old women were Russian and the only Persian they spoke was the pinching of cheeks. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “So does half the army. Germans and Russians alike.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The train with the Russian soldiers rolled away. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The Germans brought soup and bread in two-wheeled carts which were pulled by Russians. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It was lined with polished wood and Russian leather and its bronze hardware gleamed like gold. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The voice that could order a squadron from the heavens to set fire to Havana or to decimate a Russian fleet or to start a world war. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A farmer ran up to help him, and a larger group of Russian men arrived in a car, surrounding him as he lay sprawled on the ground. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z All day Saturday, the radio announcements continued about the Russian Sputnik. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Seven of them, including a knit cap, a flat cap, a Russian ushanka hat, and a Chairman Mao hat with a red star at the forehead. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Speaking words I couldn’t understand, Russian or the like, incoherent and fraught with panic. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He drove west on the Milagro-Garcia spur, a dirt road partially shaded by some cottonwoods and Russian olives growing alongside Indian Creek. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Though it was only November, snow blanketed the capital, and temperatures were dropping fast as the long Russian winter set in. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z We had been torpedoed by a Russian submarine? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z An Air Force general blessed with the surname of Power warned a shaken Senate committee that the Russians could render this country defenseless with a missile strike lasting only thirty minutes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Everyone clapped, and then other guests followed by singing their favorite songs, including a two-star Russian general who chose a hit from Russian TV. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I put the bag back in my pack and take only two cakes to the Russians. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Byrnes, who up to then had viewed the atomic bomb largely as an abstract device useful for bargaining with the Russians, would recall that Oppenheimer’s astonishing figures left him “thoroughly frightened.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He said it to Karim, but looked directly at the Russian officer. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Later, China’s imperial government recruited Korean farmers to create a buffer against Russian expansion, and Korea’s Choson Dynasty allowed them to depart legally. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z And Vera Sebastian who was so Russian she dressed the way Russian girls did long ago before the Revolution when her family had to run away to keep from being killed. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z One was Karim, the other two were soldiers, one Afghan, the other a grinning Russian, face like a bulldog’s, cigarette dangling from the side of his mouth. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The Russian was well dressed, his red hair swept back; he appeared to be in his forties. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Why resettle Russian Jews? Russia is not big enough for all?” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Within twenty-four hours, property values had been halved and every available flight out of the country was booked in the hysteria to escape before the Russians came and strung barbed wire along the borders. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition to the vice minister of justice, Russian doctors, dignitaries from other health organizations, and ten Russian generals in olive drab uniforms sat on one side of the assembled tables. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z "How am I supposed to get anyplace with the Russians if they keep dying on me?" Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Some love stories are tragedies—epics, spanning years, and built on dramatic irony, wars, Russian winters, and hours of film. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z With her eyes swollen like that and her high cheekbones, she looked almost Asian, like a certain kind of Russian. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z As rock-ribbed a Republican as ever was allowed to take a breath in West Virginia, my father detested the Russian Communists, although, it should be said, not quite as much as certain American politicians. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Then there was the Russian Tsiolkovsky, Goddard the American, and von Braun, of course. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He would possess a picture of the two of them, eating fried onions under a magenta umbrella, which he would keep, he decided, safely tucked between the pages of his Russian grammar. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The dinner that followed was lively and cordial: Bobby showed Ilyumzhinov how Fischer Random was played, and he plied the president with questions about Russian politics. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “We were supposed to launch one this year too. I can’t believe the Russians beat us to it!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z At face value, the Russian Revolution had little to do with genes. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He had never been to that country and had never laid eyes on a Russian. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The Russians are in possession of more than half the Crimea. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z An hour later, Russian speech could be heard through the microphone in the tap chamber. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Near the bottom, I found a dusty box painted with Russian lacquer-work. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Besides working for the Soros Foundation, he represented the Russian Ministry of Justice, which ran the country’s prisons. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Then Mr. Mikoyan would read me quotes from Tolstoy, whom he considered the greatest of all Russian authors, to copy onto the blackboard. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Russians are on top of us. There’s no time to waste.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z But Maria grew frustrated because the soldiers who fought alongside her were miserable about the way the war was going for the Russian army. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “The Russians draw nearer each day. Without you...I can’t bear to think what would have happened to me.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The soldiers all left to fight the Russians. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Only seven years earlier, fresh from their victory over Hitler, American and Russian leaders—and most of their citizens—believed that the two nations could coexist in peace. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Sheltered from the snow, the cold, and Russian soldiers, I finally felt safe. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She whispered, “Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Russian composers like Tchaikovsky mostly treated the brouhaha surrounding Wagner’s music dramas with disdain. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It looked like a cross between a Russian military blouse and a carpenter’s apron, but it was warm, roomy and, I thought, handsome. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Russians have this region surrounded,” she said. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The meetings were wedged in among constant banquets and receptions, at which Ernest considered his attendance essential to forging a personal connection with his Russian counterparts. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Read all the Russians, and then reread them,” his grandfather had said. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Tchaikovsky wasn’t the first heavyweight Russian composer who wrote in the mainstream international idiom, the same milieu as Beethoven, Berlioz, Verdi or Brahms. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The Russian Communists are not in the least concerned about these people. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z There is talk of the difficulty of Russian names, students confessing merely to skimming them. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I grabbed his hand, thankful he couldn’t read Russian. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Trenches snake below them in an endless net, German positions on one side, Russian positions beyond. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He waved his rifle around our faces, yelling in Russian. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z If they heard those Russian words, they would know that an enemy surveillance team had seen them and blown their cover. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Weapons lay scattered along the road, dropped as the Russians fled, free for the taking. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He’s demolished a house, he says, ruined when the Russians were fighting the Germans, but this wood is still okay, and what would I want with a lot of old wood, anyway? The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z But by leapfrogging the United States into space, the Russians had turned even local racial policy into fodder for the international conflict. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The next day, the massive Russian army reached Berlin’s northern suburbs. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Two weeks before the scheduled July 1 start of the talks, the Russians suddenly had insisted that the agenda be broadened to encompass negotiation of the test ban itself. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The article was reprinted in German, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish, Icelandic, and even the Russian chess journalists made mention of it. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Further, he claimed that he had not won the World Championship in Iceland in 1972; he already was the World Champion: His title was stolen, he said, by the Russians. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Russian doctors and health officials—male and female—all wore olive drab uniforms. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Many government officials believed that the anarchists were sympathetic to the Communists who had taken over the Russian government and were determined to make the United States their next target. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Most Poles already knew German; the Russians quickly learned what they needed to know. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z His bandy legs were thrust into golden cavalry boots which he had taken from a dead Hungarian colonel on the Russian front. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Now she snapped photographs with John's camera wherever she went, creating a visual map of the Russian capital for the CIA. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Even the Russian soldier, and he couldn’t speak Polish. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z When I told Frankie of this, he explained that in the Russian Empire it was even worse. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z "No one in history has ever conquered the Russians. Now how many more people will have to die?" The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe he’s speaking Russian? Sounds like Russian…” Aru looked up at the man. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Jan: “You shouldn’t include the Jews. I don’t think anyone knows what’s going on in Russia. The British and the Russians are probably exaggerating for propaganda purposes, just like the Germans.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z A small army of agents tracked down every name the Russian man had handed over: They were all genuine. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Then he asked Farmer and PIH to help fix the Russian pilot projects. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “The Russian technique for infecting water supplies was particularly ingenious.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z So now I know Auntie Ying’s daughter, Lena, told her about my being evicted from my apartment on lower Russian Hill. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z When Ivan mumbled the words on the page as he followed along with his finger, Anya realized he wasn’t speaking Russian, or Hebrew, or any language she had ever heard of. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Also, the Russian cosmonauts were reported to be having some problems with nausea. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Perhaps I can be of assistance,” said Dr. Zinchenko in her thick Russian accent. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Once again, the SS-HJ was reorganized and sent to Hungary to slow the Russian army as it advanced toward Germany from the east. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z A slight chill to the air, even in August, something almost Russian. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “God Save the King,” the American national anthem and the Russian “Internationale” were played. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He made a comment in English, not caring that the interpreter could hear and understand it—something to the effect that he was fed up “with these Russian pigs.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Mother translated my words into Russian for the guard. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “This is not a Russian spa, where we can lay about and take the waters all day long,” Penelope said to him, cheerfully but firmly. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The historian David Arkush once compared Russian and Chinese peasant proverbs, and the differences are striking. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “Da,” I said, which was the only Russian word I knew other than the curse words that Frankie had delighted in teaching me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z "I wondered how the Russians felt," he recalled, "knowing I was up here, unable to do anything about it." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Nearly three months later, the German army was defeated by the Russians at Stalingrad. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “I had never given thought to how the Russian civilians must have felt when they saw us rolling into their towns and villages.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Many people have high hopes that Yelena can achieve what so few Russian women have been able to—flying into space. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Imagine, in this heat wearing a gown sprinkled with rubies, diamonds, and pearls, and bordered with 150 feet of Russian ermine. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Russians prefer to call their space travelers cosmonauts. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z And he’d always thought that the Soviets wanted him dead, because of the international embarrassment over the 1972 match, and his accusations of Russian cheating. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Most of the prisoners in this camp, like the last one, were Polish, German, or Russian. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z I remember one time in 1967 when my wife and I got to go to Paris for a couple of days to see an air show and to meet two Russian cosmonauts. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Even when Stravinsky borrowed from Russian ethnic folk music, which he did in several of his Diaghilev ballet scores, he did so in order to distort it through some mischievous prism. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “Want to know what the Russian police said?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I knew I’d have to learn a bit of Russian eventually, but I hated the thought. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Although Nabokov was the scion of a Russian noble family, he detested the class-bound servility ubiquitous in the land of his birth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Bobby peered over the chessboard, scanning and evaluating—attempting not just to suggest a Russian conspiracy, but to prove it unequivocally. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The contest with the Russian grandmaster was not a formal match, but consisted of speed games, and Petrosian won the majority. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z That would mean, of course, cutting back on some of his international travel, yet a few weeks later he was back in Tomsk, visiting TB patients and checking out the Russian programs. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The Soviets had spies inside various factories—Americans who were will- ing to secretly share information with the Russians, in exchange for cash. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Kissinger told Bobby that he should go to Iceland and beat the Russians at their own game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The second half of the nineteenth century was, for music, all about destiny too, though since music was dominated by Germans, Italians, Frenchmen and Russians, tragedy triumphed, and it all ended in death. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z A little offended, Anya said, “Of course I can read, in Russian and Hebrew.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He had grown up in a small town near Kiev in the Russian Empire. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I took Russian for nearly two years at school. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother grabbed the officer and began speaking in Russian—pure, fluent Russian. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The economic, political, and social forces that unloosed themselves on the streets of Petrograd and launched the Russian Revolution were vastly more complex than Alexei’s hemophilia or Rasputin’s machinations. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Ah, you’ll have to excuse me. My Russian is not very good. You are Russian, yes?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z And they would have to complete it during the most terrible Russian winter on record. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z English were building factories, drinking tea, and organizing against the slave trade, the vast majority of Russians were serfs. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z There had existed in Old Russia millions of poor, ignorant people who were exploited by a few, educated, arrogant noblemen, and it became natural for the Russian Communists to associate betrayal with intellectualism. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A blond Russian was white, and his aunt would not feel the need to prove that she liked people who looked like the blond Russian. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z There was some speculation that the Russians’ payload was a bucket of red paint. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Panicked villagers spilled stories in the street of Russian soldiers wearing necklaces made from the teeth of children. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z And the media didn’t seem to notice, until news hit that the Russian cells had been contaminated by American ones. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He struggled with the Russian and continually asked his mother to translate some of the prose passages that accompanied the annotations of the moves. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z And on the other side of the field were thousands of Russians and Poles and Yugoslavians and so on guarded by American soldiers. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, sure! Hardly a day goes by somebody doesn’t take a belt at the Russians.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Sasha could still effortlessly layer a lisp over a Russian accent when the cards required it. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z One small boy who had blown up a Russian tank collapsed from exhaustion after receiving his medal. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z It was no secret from the Germans, of course, or from the Russians, who occupied Dresden after the war, who are in Dresden still. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The United States accounted for 125 of these; the Russians, 44; and Great Britain, 21. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Give them Russians hell today, Colonel,” Bertha called as he left the restaurant. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the Russian woman doctors spoke up: “We have lots of TB and no labs.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He spoke in Russian to Karim without taking his eyes off her. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In the harsh Russian winter, sometimes the pilots moved into dugouts, because it was warmer underground! A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The Russians couldn’t take the sun or the stars. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Its austere emptiness made her nervous; she wished he had pictures or books or Russian dolls that she could look at. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z By about two o’clock each afternoon I wished the Russians would bomb me out of my misery. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It is true that a lively fear of Russian intentions and capabilities had settled upon Washington, fueling the expectation that war with the Soviet Union was inevitable. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The Russian waved to him, and called after him in Russian, “Good-bye.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Herbie hunkered, petrified, horrified, on his sleeping bag, watching them die like gas victims from the First World War, like Napoleonic soldiers on a Russian winter battlefield. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1938, Elizabeth met a man named Timmy, a strongly built Russian immigrant with red hair, blue eyes, and a nearly lifelong commitment to communism. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Some man came by to see Lice last night,” she said, “just before he ran off. A big bald-headed guy with a weird foreign accent—French or Russian or something.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The second Russian officer, gray-haired and heavyset, spoke to us in broken Farsi. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Jews, Germans, Russians, Spaniards, all races and nationalities were represented without any distinctions whatever. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Tchaikovsky, though, was the first Russian composer to achieve meaningful fame outside Russia. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “The family she was staying with gave her to the Russians to save their daughter. The boyfriend was a story she made up to continue on. She won’t really look at the baby yet.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The Russian drew himself up stiffly and pointed to the clouds that were blowing in toward the island. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z They forced her to teach in Russian, even though many children did not yet fully understand the language. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I kept going, saying I thought the worst thing there was in the world had to be the Russians. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Instead, they, too, gave him the fond nickname Batya, Russian for “Dad”—even though he was only about ten years older than most of them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z About the only audience he could count on was a bearded character everyone called the Mad Russian, who had been wandering Sequim’s streets barefoot and muttering to himself for as long as anyone could remember. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The woman ran to my brother, speaking quickly in Russian. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z While waiting or serving his sentence, he’d probably get infected with TB—it was estimated that 80 percent of all Russian prisoners had bacilli in their bodies. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I saw a second Russian officer with the others. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He rattled off something in Russian, too quickly for me to understand. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He was willing to spend Russian rubles, and sell Soviet arms, to make allies among the world's developing nations. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The Russians are taking part in the campaign; yesterday they started their offensive near Vitebsk, exactly three years to the day that the Germans invaded Russia. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Another Russian winter was closing in, and it hadn’t finished taking its toll. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z A few months ago the Russians stormed the village and reportedly committed vicious acts of brutality. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “If God does not bring it, the earth will not give it” is a typical Russian proverb. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “She was doing good till she got to the Russian dude.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The cold of the Russian winter was more than an endurance test. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “Had the Russian scientists actually been several years ahead of our estimates of their progress?” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought of the Russians approaching, the pistol on my neck in the earthen cellar, and I willed my feet to move. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z All that fall, the Welch Daily News and the Bluefield Daily Telegraph were filled with stories of our American scientists and engineers at Cape Canaveral in Florida, desperately working to catch up with the Russians. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The Russians may or may not have been able to read the wordy message, written in English, from their moving car. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z But the Russian soldier shouted something that made the other two flinch. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Later, he found the freshly dug trenches filled with his dead comrades, all mowed down by the Russians. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z There is a Russian saying that people use with resignation at times like this: Life is life. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It dubbed the contest “The Russian Bear vs. the Brooklyn Wolf.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Kleist talked too much when the Russians arrived. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z A more challenging academic curriculum was to be installed, the result of Sputnik and the worry over how badly educated America’s children were compared to Russian kids. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z But in between were a dozen teeth, each slightly bigger than the last, each a perfect enlargement of the one that came before it, like Russian dolls. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z The back of our train car had Russian writing on it. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Bobby, for his part, was livid at the seeming collusion: “I will teach those dirty Russians a lesson they won’t forget for a long time,” he wrote from the Hotel Toplice. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z With a scowl and a blast of Russian, Mrs. Mirabov let go of the string connecting them. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Brodatt is not a Northern English name; it is a Russian name, I think, because her grandfather came from Russia. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z After I had finished jotting down the letters in Yiddish, my left hand kept moving, but it was only to repeat the question in Russian. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Five days later, the Russians surrounded the inner city, prepared for siege warfare. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The Russian listened to Karim and barked a series of words. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Now they were here, dead-center in a sea of dying Russians. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In spite of his father’s occasional suggestions, he has never been inspired to read a word of Gogol, or any Russian writer, for that matter. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z As the Russian forces approached, Dr. Lange assured me that moving the twenty-seven crates containing the Amber Room meant preserving the riches of the Reich. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She was making a Russian peasant costume for a play to be presented in Denver. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z “American troops are pushing into German soil. The Russians have captured back all of Romania. Only yesterday the Greeks in the Eighth Army captured Rimini. The Germans are on the defensive everywhere!” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Yep, we need a bomb shelter. The Russian Commies say they are planning to bury us, but I’ve got news for them—we are going to survive whatever atom bomb attack they throw our way.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z And in May 1972, Nixon pledged that American and Russian scientists would work together in a biomedical exchange program to find the virus. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The different representatives had all spoken their own languages—French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The Russian soldier said something to Karim, a smile creasing his lips. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Rumors immediately flew that the Russians were nearby. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z I sat back, waiting for him to tell me how bad he thought the Russians were too, but he surprised me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I read some newspaper editorials and listened to television commentary that wondered if perhaps western civilization itself might soon be at an end with the technologically superior Russians taking over. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Later, I would hear that a lot of them were wondering if the mine had blown up or maybe the Russians had attacked. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “We’re not about to be kidnapped by the Russians, are we?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The empty taxi rose, and the Russian watched it go, absently. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Before the postcard was delivered to New York, it was read by Russian censors, and Bobby’s intemperate response found its way into the Soviet press. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z No one ever liked being sent back to the agency, of course, entering into the Russian roulette of a brand-new home. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z But most of the Russians have long since parted with whatever things they had. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Our principle concern,” he explained, “was to keep information and atomic scientists from falling into the hands of the Russians.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “I just got a call from Mrs. Vinyl and she said she thought Norvelt was being invaded by the Russians and that she was having a spell.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The Russians come for them on a cloudless day in May. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Look at those old American cars. They’re held together with rubber bands and paper clips and still work better than the new Russian ones. Oye!” she calls out to the bystanders. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z As the Russians closed in, Hitler vowed that the Russians would suffer their worst defeat in Berlin. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Russian forces stopped the German advance just short of Moscow, but the two massive armies were still slugging it out along a battlefront stretching 1,500 miles from north to south. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He hates that his name is both absurd and obscure, that it has nothing to do with who he is, that it is neither Indian nor American but of all things Russian. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It seemed as if he thought if he played us his usual rock and roll, we might get even farther behind the Russian kids. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The Russian winter might stop the Germans, but it wasn’t going to stop the women of Raskova’s regiments. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Now beet sugar set an example of modern farming that helped convince Russian nobles that it was time to free their millions of serfs. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Of course it’s Russian. I was just testo-testing you to keep you sharp. Take your eyes off me, mister. Do you want to get in my pants?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d row it all the way down the Corsica River to Pioneer Point, where the Russian embassy in Washington, D.C., has a summer place. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z The submissions ranged from the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights to a Russian cookbook. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes he expressed his longing for Poland, at that time swallowed up in the Russian Empire, through his highly stylised adaptation of Polish folk dances - mazurkas and polonaises. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z And now the Russian soldier takes me from Max, picks me up around the waist, and bounces me up and down. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The Russian ran his eyes over Alex, as if weighing him up. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z ‘I feel like the whole Russian army marched through my mouth in its stocking feet.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Years later, as a filmmaker, Yevgeniya made that child “a symbol of the great Russian tragedy of the millions of homeless, orphaned children.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The officer led Blake into one of the only buildings standing, where "a big, burly man of about forty or forty-five with a pale complexion" greeted him in Russian. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The enormous phalanx of the Permian band, led by the ma-jorettes in their black velvet costumes, unfolded like the Russian army in a Victory Day parade in Moscow. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And in a final, tantalizing clue, the Russian included a photograph of three men at a party. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z And then I heard them: Russian planes strafing overhead. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z When it was discovered that the rabbi was not dead but was being cared for by the Russian peasant, he was brought into the still-intact home of a Jewish family and nursed back to health. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I just watched an episode where Steve Austin fights a Russian Venus probe that landed on Earth by mistake. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z MI5 agents immediately arrested Blake in London, and he quickly confessed to spying for the Russians. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z We defend our curious role in Spain by referring to the Russian menace and the necessity of protecting the free world. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z I am often on guard over the Russians. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s also possible that Tania’s Diary of a Red Army Woman sequence, which was full of Russian nationalism, was a little too controversial for American audiences. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Gunwoo’s family had escaped from the North and lost many members to the Russians and North Korea’s KPA, Korean People’s Army. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “She was in the forest. A Russian cornered her. She followed me here. She has a couple potatoes. Now, leave me alone,” I said. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z From the little he knows about Russian writers, it dismays him that his parents chose the weirdest namesake. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I scavenged through the Russian’s frozen pockets and took cigarettes, a flask, a large sausage wrapped in paper, his gun, and ammunition. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “I wonder what it’s like to be a Russian?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Not many in the Russian government liked to pleasant past. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The Los Angeles Times proclaimed that the majority of the strike’s leaders were “Bolsheviki of the most radical Russian type.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z He revealed later that he’d manipulated the Russian into a variation that Fischer had studied years before, and for which he had originated a favorable response. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The cellar shook as the American tanks rolled past the house, and, as Henry saw the immense tanks, he realized for the first time how frightening German tanks must have appeared to the Russian people. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Along with the anxiety that the Russians’ accomplishment provoked, Christine felt a sense of wonder, even a thrill, to see the skies above open so wide. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Rather than fall into the brutal hands of Russian marauders, some people defied the Reich and left without orders, like us. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z On the Russian front, after helping secure the World Bank loan, he received a special request from the Soros Foundation. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “We were afraid the Russians would slaughter us all,” said Lothar Loewe, age sixteen. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z A similar discovery was made about the same time by the Russian scientist Lev Davidovich Landau. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The Russians were targeting German ground troops nearby. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The failure to let one of the world’s leading scientists attend a completely nonpolitical meeting would have been expected from the Russians. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z And there were sections of the city where different foreigners lived—Japanese, White Russians, Americans, and Germans—but never together, all with their own separate habits, some dirty, some clean. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Russian soldiers patrolled the main roads and the train station, and the Jews of German-held West Przemyśl were expelled across the river. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The fact that most older Hungarians knew Russian, and that many also had a command of German, while most of the younger generation could speak English, helped Bobby in communicating. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Russian missiles were being assembled, trained supposedly on New York City. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Taking advantage of this huge new support, Palmer obtained a deportation order for 199 of the Russians, most of whom were not even given a hearing. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z While speeches were made in English, Russian, and Icelandic, the audience fidgeted, craning their necks to the side entrance, half expecting—hoping—that at any moment Fischer would make a grand entrance. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “If this turns out to be a weapon that is really awful,” Sax said, “what you should do about it is tell the Russians.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Fischer, with a weak smile, looked somewhat embarrassed, as if to say, “I really should have won this tournament, and I can’t blame the Russians this time. It was me...all alone.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Karim gave a curt reply in Russian, which the soldier returned with an even curter retort. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Campbell was the inventor and commander of the unit, which was supposed to fight only on the Russian front. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z What the American and Russian public didn't know was more terrifying still. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z On a foggy morning another of the Russians is buried; almost every day one of them dies. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He toiled silently at a desk inside the Russian Section, which, like all departments, was locked, heavily guarded, and subject to strict rules about what could be taken in—or out. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Absolutely nothing,” said the voice of the Russian librarian. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Moldering in a Russian prison, Poncelet founded a new discipline: projective geometry. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Asked if the bout would be a grudge match, he replied: “In a sense. But not personally between me and Spassky...it’s against the Russians.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Russian TB might show the world the consequences of neglecting the health of poor people everywhere. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The German people have been asked to donate woolen and fur clothing for the soldiers at the Russian front, where winter comes early. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z There’s a general mood of optimism about the Russian front, because that’s going great guns! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z On November 3, the Russians struck again, launching Sputnik II. This one had a dog in it—Laika was her name—and by her picture in the paper, she looked a little like Poteet. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z If we hadn’t seen the ships, big ones with curled Russian lettering, moored to the docks like Gullivers, we might have come back another day. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The strange, passionate marriage of Russian and French modernism that was born at those Trocadero concerts was to turn into something big, noisy and rebellious. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The man asked him in Russian a question that Powers interpreted to mean, "Are you an American?" Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I thought the planes were Russian at first, flying so low that Marysia’s dishes rattled. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Currently all flights to the ISS are conducted through the Russian Federal Space Agency. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Eventually they also made hazardous supply flights to the partisans, the guerrilla groups who were fighting against the Germans in the Bryansk Forest near the Russian border with Ukraine. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Schoening and Beidleman, barely able to speak, told the Russian where to find the five clients who’d remained behind out in the elements and then collapsed in their respective tents, utterly spent. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z One day, Dr. Pérez picked us up at our hotel in his battered Russian sedan and we drove to the hacienda, in a place called Santiago de las Vegas. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z While retreating from Moscow, Napoleon’s army was whittled down to almost nothing by a harsh winter and an equally harsh Russian army. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She hated the trek, she hated the cold, she hated the Russians, she hated the war. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The next morning, he counted fifty Russian tanks rolling past his guard position. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z A staff member from the Congress was on the line: "Perevorot," she said, using the Russian word for "coup." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I ate a small piece of the sausage from the dead Russian and watched the young woman as she tried to speak with the girl from the forest. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Bull Meecham could see it; he could hear the sound of ships breaking up and the screams of Russian sailors. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z "Every day that Germans spend at the Russian front will be a gain for the British." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z “So now you have to learn Russian or you, won’t be able to read your present,” he said. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The cheap Russian boots pinch her feet as she trudges, the last of a single file of would-be guerrillas, up the intolerably fragrant mountainside. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The news that night is all about the Russian campaign. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Yet he refused to read the Russians his grandfather had brought to his bedside, or any novels, for that matter. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Here is her account of “subject #18”: A Russian tailor artisan comes to America, takes to the needle trade, works in a sweat shop for a small salary. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The Russians had offered to help him as a last resort. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The rest of us had to learn Russian. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “You must be nearly fluent in Russian by now,” he teased, pulling on my hat. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The Russian would look at Bobby from near or far, and begin laughing, and once in the communal dining room he pointed to Bobby and said out loud, “Fischer: cuckoo!” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Invariably accompanied by a gorgeous French secretary- interpreter who may or may not have consorted with Russian royalty. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He believed that Russian manipulation of tournaments had become a great deal more “open,” or apparent, presumably in response to his threat of domination. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It’s less work for the Russians and the British, and it allows them to start rebuilding their own cities all that much sooner. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Women’s faces were flaked with mud and ash, camouflage from the Russians they’d applied while trekking through the woods. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The Russian smiled and held up his hand, calling himself Captain Orlov. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z They then called on all responsible and law-abiding blacks to help the government thwart attempts to turn South Africa —a Christian, civilized, peace-loving multinational democracy—into a Russian satellite. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z From here on it’s like a Russian nesting doll, designed that way by Peck. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “How do folks around here feel about all this talking back to the Russians?” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z So the Russian guide resolved to bring back the group by himself. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z If we lay there long enough, we were blessed with a satellite—American or Russian, we were never sure—streaking across the sky. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Also, he said, some of the local WHO bureaucrats were Polish, not Russian, and between the two nationalities old hatreds still endured. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z With the threat of Russian submarines in the area, most ships would probably detour to avoid us. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She was an American, after all, and the Russians were the enemy! Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z On November 4, they were unusually tired, having stayed up late the night before writing a paper for Russian Lit. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z A Provisional Government took the place of imperial rule in Petrograd and granted equality in law to Russian women, giving women the right to vote and to hold office. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Elizabeth fell in love with this mysterious blue-eyed Russian man. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The Russian Revolution may not have been about genes, but it was very much about heredity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z What was left of the old Russian Empire would become known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics—the USSR, or Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z In August 1955, Russian rocket scientists announced that they would soon be able to send a satellite into space. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z They did not come into substantial contact with Europeans until the sixteenth century, when Russian fur merchants overturned their governments, established military outposts throughout the region, and demanded furs in tribute. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “She is a Russian. Her husband realized all this money before the Revolution and invested it abroad. She is extremely rich. A cosmopolitan.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z A strapping Russian boy with the face of someone for whom no remaining thing on earth could be surprising. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The handful of spies in Berlin were the closest to America's communist adversary—and none of them spoke Russian. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The Russian pistol fell from her hand and dropped into the snow. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Initially, President Eisenhower tried to pooh-pooh the Russians’ “small ball in the air” as an insignificant achievement, but the American people would have none of it. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Less than a year later, on March 28, 1912, another Russian aviator came into the world. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The train had arrived on a siding by a prison which was originally constructed as an extermination camp for Russian prisoners of war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be an avenger’s voice that would turn the squadron toward the convoy of Russian ships bringing missiles to Cuba. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Or playing Russian roulette with the revolver that your father thinks you don’t know about. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The US Army’s Jupiter-C missile had been tested successfully on several occasions, and the Americans were ahead of the Russians in terms of the systems that guided missiles on their trajectories into space. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The Russians go into the closet, and they hear the handles of mops being kicked drunk- enly and a crate of dictionaries go thudding down the stairs, and then someone rattles the knob. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Billy and the rest were wooed through gate after gate, and Billy saw his first Russian. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe. Nomadic peoples rarely have one language they all speak. I’m sure a lot of the Pecheneg bands nearer to the Kievan border speak Russian. Why?” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z He muttered something in Russian, then blew a long stream of smoke in my face. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z There is the Central Market, the Russian Market, the Olympic Market, and many others. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Like many other Americans, Katherine bridled at the reality of the Russians’ metal moon orbiting overhead. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z A young man in a beret and military fatigues knelt on one knee in the grass, holding a Russian assault rifle, watching us with mild interest. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They would wait for the Russians to liberate them. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, as late as 1894, when the average English person was eating close to ninety pounds of sugar a year, the average Russian used just eight pounds. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “All this rocket stuff they’re doing down at Cape Canaveral,” he said, “is just burning up taxpayers’ money to scare the Russians. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Snowden jumped on a plane to Moscow and was granted asylum by the Russian government, putting him out of reach of U.S. authorities. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “If the Russians demonstrate a Super before we possess one, our situation will be hopeless,” he wrote in a frantic memo for a 1949 meeting on research priorities at Los Alamos. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The Russian was given two separate code names inside the Agency: IRONBARK, for the military information he provided, and CHICKADEE, for his political espionage. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z This morning was fair with little wind, yet it was the season of the year when storms could be looked for, so I understood why the Russian wished to move onto our island. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z While I listened to the beeping, I had this mental image of Russian high-school kids lifting the Sputnik and putting it in place on top of a big, sleek rocket. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to read and purchase Russian chess literature and visit the clubs and parks where chess was played. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z And slowly, as the Russians begin to reorganize Przemyśl, and we get used to living again, the talk turns to what might happen next. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Bobby’s belief in a Russian cabal involving the two Ks had become his crusade, and he’d been airing his views all over the world for several years. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z There was a lot of talk all at once, about the Russian military hospital where they’d all found work, hoping to be evacuated with the army. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z It was a windless day in May when the Russians arrived at the farm. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z They still believed they could beat the Allies, even though we’d heard that the Russians had taken Warsaw and that Dresden was in flames. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z “You think then we might be using the Russians as an outlet for something else, for other things.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He then revealed that Soviet forces had shot down the American spy plane over Russian territory. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Instead of thanking God he thanks Gogol, the Russian writer who had saved his life, when Patty enters the waiting room. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z This method derived from the theories of the Russian physicist George Gamow, who deduced from quantum mechanics that the occasional particle from even a moderately energetic beam could penetrate the nucleus. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Even by the grim standards of Russian assassinations, the violence of this murder was a testimony to the visceral hatred that he had inspired in his enemies. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In trying to grasp why Communists hated intellectuals, my mind was led back again to the accounts I had read of the Russian Revolution. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “It may be the Russians get here first. The peace can’t last.” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z I lowered my arm and saw my sleeve, splattered with Russian blood. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Cox went home to bed, confused and disappointed, not knowing what to think about the mysterious Russian man. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I realized that Frankie must have told Mr. Whitby that he was from Russia, although by imperial law he was considered neither a Russian citizen nor an ethnic Pole or Lithuanian. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The victorious Allies divided Germany into four occupied zones: Russian, French, British, and American. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z But we no longer had the strength or the courage to think that the Germans would run out of time, that the Russians would reach us before we could be evacuated. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Baba kept choking him until the young mother, the one the Russian officer had fancied, begged him to stop. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He was also articulate, knowledgeable, and an expert in Russian history. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Russians have won. The Russians have won!” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Powers could only nod and point as they peppered him with questions in Russian, a language he did not understand at all. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Six weeks passed and the Russians hadn't responded. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z And now the vile Russians were closing in. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Felicia first notices her second husband-to-be when he pedals by her furiously on a clunky Russian bicycle, his hair vertical as a sail. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The Russian Empire entered the war right away. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z One night, when the rest of the prisoners were sleeping, Blake approached the North Korean guardhouse, carrying a note written in Russian, asking for a meeting at the Russian embassy in Pyongyang. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z We wanted to beat the Russians—that was what made the world go around for us. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Every time the United States launched a satellite, the Russians launched one bigger and better. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The men led Marti into a room bustling with other Russian agents. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z By 1900 this ancient sound had fed like a river into the choral texture of all Russian composers. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z They hold the piece of bread or sausage right under the nose of the Russian till he grows pale with greed and his eyes bulge and then he will give anything for it. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s commonly used as a name for Russian news sources even today. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The general public could grow HeLa at home using instructions from a Scientific American do-it- yourself article, and both Russian and American scientists had managed to grow HeLa in space. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I couldn’t stand to look at her, at the streaks of dead Russian splattered down her sleeve. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “KAT stands for katorzhnik. Hard labor convict. It’s used to mark criminals who are sent to Siberia. But if he was Russian, I’d have known. I’d have heard it in his voice.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z On one of the first warm days, Omer and Liyana licked pistachio ice cream cones as they sat on an iron bench near the Russian Orthodox Church with its onion domes. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z All throughout the years that he lived in Budapest, Bobby studied Russian almost every day, and he used Olga to correct his grammar and pronunciation. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In smaller cinemas a pianist or organist would provide a similarly live accompaniment; Russian classical composer Dmitri Shostakovich supported himself in Leningrad in 1924-5 by doing just that. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Karl agreed, and he was sent to Czechoslovakia, where he was captured by the Soviet Russians and shipped to a prisoner-of-war camp in Siberia. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z For example, four Russian submarines prowled the waters near Cuba, each one carrying a torpedo loaded with a nuclear weapon. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It was a typical day in the park in the Russian capital. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I take out my cigarettes, break each one in half and give them to the Russians. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The Red Army had held the invasion back from the Soviet capital, but it was the wretched Russian winter that really turned the tables. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Mother continued to speak in Russian and pulled a pocket watch from her coat. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The drawing of the lots to determine who’d play what color, scheduled for noon at the Hotel Esja, attracted hundreds of journalists, officials of the ICF, and members of both the American and Russian sides. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I also heard Mother say spaseeba, which meant “thank you” in Russian. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z She quickly made her way to the window, swapped places with Jonas, and yelled out in Russian. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z On April 30, 1945, as the Russians advanced to within a few hundred yards of his bunker, Hitler shot himself. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z If, for Italians, the supreme expression of their love of music was the emotionally charged operatic aria, for Russians it was dance. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z On February 1, I heard on the radio that the Russians had launched Luna I, the first man-made object ever to break away from Earth’s gravity. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe everybody needs Russians. I’ll bet even in Russia they need Russians. Maybe they call it Americans.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They waited until right before the Russian envoy was scheduled to arrive to unfurl their banner. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It turned out to be another Russian guard—he hadn’t answered because he’d forgotten that night’s password! A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z In the train of the Russian fur market came Russian diseases, notably smallpox. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “And the German told me a Russian had found her in the forest.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She had read about the Imperial Russian Ballet in Saint Petersburg, where the world’s greatest dancers went to study and perform. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z At first many of the slaves working sugar plantations in the Mediterranean were Russians, or anyone captured in war. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z While Stalingrad was burning, they were cooling their heels in the fragrant fields of the Russian steppes, surrounded by sagebrush and birdsong. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The Soviet Union won by one point over the Rest of the World: 20½–19½, and the Russians were shaken by their near defeat. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She’s always cooking all kinds of foods, not just Korean food but Spanish, Chinese, Italian, Vietnamese, and even Russian. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “We’re releasing depth charges. There are still Russian subs prowling the area.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Bentley had chosen New Haven over the much larger FBI office near her home in New York City, betting that she could avoid being followed by Russian agents. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z If his big plan was going so well, seems like we would have seen hides or tails of the Russians by now. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A Russian colonel, holding up his pack of cigarettes, inquired of Farmer if America was a democracy. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z In one camp, six Russian prisoners of war managed to escape, but they were caught later on. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z He pored through old Russian and American accounts of the area to find answers, but he never asked the people in Larsen Bay about their own culture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Yet those charged with mounting the American offense in space saw strength in countering the Russian value of secrecy with its opposites— transparency, democracy, equality—and not a simulacrum. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Eva, there’s no time. The Russians are upon us. They could invade this port at any moment.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z During his brutal reign, the Russian people were denied basic liberties, including freedom of speech and religion, and millions of Soviet citizens were killed in what has been called the Great Purge. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Nina's Russian grandfather on the Volga and Marinas Indian great-grandfather in Guyana were linked by sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “But you’ll probably be hearing from us soon. We may be at war with the Russians in another year or so. You fellows will certainly be needed again then.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z In a portrait of “Three Russian Women” for his book The Curtain Rises, published in 1944, he describes her incredible career as a fighter pilot at Stalingrad. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Farmer tried to reason with Alex, but the Russian wasn’t pacified. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z We don’t care that the German soldier walking down the street is now being searched by the Russians, his hands on his head. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z For example, the Indo-European language family, which includes English as well as French, Russian, Greek, and Hindi, comprises about 144 languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That same year, CIA operatives made contact with a senior official in the Soviet Foreign Ministry who was stationed at the Russian embassy in Bogotá, Colombia. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Now, most people might call me a mongrel, but I have some pretty fancy bloodlines running through these veins and Russian wolfhound happens to be one of them. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z Farmer also agreed to serve as a consultant on TB in Russian prisons for the World Bank’s mission to Moscow. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z A true convert to the communist cause, Blake insisted that he would not accept money from the Russians. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He was later killed at the Russian front. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Once the Russians are defeated,” he went on, “you will be repatriated through Switzerland.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z There were others, in all about a dozen, including Baba and me, sitting with our suitcases between our legs, cramped with these strangers in the tarpaulin-covered cab of an old Russian truck. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It was a 184-pound aluminum alloy sphere twenty-three inches in diameter which the Russians called Sputnik—meaning “traveling companion” or “fellow traveler.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A long time ago, she knew a Russian chef who taught her how to make the most delicious beef stew. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Underneath any joking, the reality for Russians was alarming. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Few Russian women who became pilots in the Soviet Union’s state-sponsored clubs in the 1980s and early 1990s can afford to fly as private citizens now that the Soviet Union no longer exists. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z As we watched the men ride around the arena, Frankie explained that Cossacks formed the military might of the Russian Empire, where they were required to serve for twenty years. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z We sat in the cellar for a week, listening to the Russians arrive and to the babies cry and to gunfire that went from the rooftops to the streets. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z In today’s world, financial constraints, gender bias, and lack of state support now make it almost impossible for Russian women to learn to fly. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Tomsk was to be the major pilot project to stop the Russian TB epidemic, the project that would show the way to controlling—in prisons, towns, and cities throughout Russia—both drug-susceptible TB and MDR. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z There was even less food now since the bombing by the Russians. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z So I go out to give them to the Russians. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Davis cracked Italian, Japanese, Chinese, and Russian ciphers during World War II. Later, she served in the NSA, working on Russian intercepts. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z On this particular day, Bobby was going over once again, perhaps for the hundredth time, the fourth game of the 1985 World Championship match between the two Russian grandmasters Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The Russians were fed up with a sickly prince swallowing strange herbs to combat a mysterious illness. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In the spring of 1941, the Luftwaffe regularly sent spy planes over Russian troops and Russian cities. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z A lone Russian soldier rode up to the gates. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z But before that could happen, the Soviets launched Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961, and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z I can only hope we are being bombed by the Russians. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The irony was not lost on me when I climbed out of a bunker one morning and found a dud Russian 122-mm rocket buried nearby. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He’d come to Moscow to play chess, to cross pawns with a serious Russian tournament player. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Hurry! Russian planes dropped phosphorus on a mass of refugees. It blinded them and they had to roll in the snow.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The Russian prime minister, Leonid Brezhnev, wrote to Dr. Verwoerd asking for leniency. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Project Mercury was designed to do that, but again the Russians got there first, and put the first human being into orbit. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Duma had accompanied Walter on his trip to the Youth Conference in Bucharest, and that night he entertained us with the Russian and Chinese songs he had learned on his trip. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yakov told me once that he had studied Russian until he could speak it fluently without an accent,” I said, thinking of the bitter pride in Yakov’s voice when he had told me that. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “I bet all the Russians wish they could move to Norvelt,” she replied, defending her town. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z RANKIN: That is the Russian Communist secret police? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z An old Russian Muslim and his wife were not asleep. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Alongside our camp is the big Russian prison camp. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The Russian spotted a police officer and, as quickly as he appeared, disappeared into the night, leaving the two Americans with the envelope, uncertain what to do. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z So the Russian undid the snags one by one, and the scarecrow danced off into the night again without a word of thanks. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only were Russian farms run on unfree labor, but they used very simple, old-fashioned methods of farming. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I could see swarms of Russians plowing into East Prussia toward the coast of the Baltic Sea, flattening Germany’s Wehrmacht, and all of us, in the process. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z That was the end of the Russian Empire. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “They say the Russians will soon be here. Hitler was very cruel to the Russian people, and everyone is afraid.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z When the National Woman’s Party learned that representatives of the Russian government were going to visit the White House on June 20, 1917, they decided to turn up the heat again. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Now I am informed that the Russian chess federation is demanding that the first game be forfeited to you. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In the semifinal round, we faced the formidable Russian team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The explorer Martin Sauer, who visited Kamchatka five years after Cook’s expedition, discovered that the Russian government had at last ventured into the former epidemic zone. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The New York Times ran a story by Ralph Parker in March 1942 about the different wartime jobs Russian women were able to do: “aviation instructor” is one of them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z She went on to work in government as a member of the Russian legislature and deputy chair of the Committee on Defense. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Once, Twig tried to crash some poor kid’s birthday bowling party by saying we were Russian orphans. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The Russian offered a second document as proof of his genuine intentions. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The Russian tailor and his sons become men’s suit manufacturers supplying several men’s stores The sons and the father become prosperous The sons’ children become educated professionals. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Russians at home grew angry and unhappy, resentful of having to pour their lives and resources into this war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Should the Russians arrive, they will step into the dirt pits and take their own lives. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z There was a card that required you to talk in a Russian accent, a card that required you to lisp, and a card that required you to lisp while talking in a Russian accent. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “That is correct, Monsieur. My handkerchiefs are always initialled in the Russian characters. H is N in Russian.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Fischer, after moving to collect Spassky’s gift, sat back in his chair, grimly, staring at the Russian—studying him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But three days later, when the shop was so full that Izio had come to help after classes, I saw Izio grinning at me, eyes crinkled, pointing over a Russian soldier’s head toward the door. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z During the political upheaval of the uncertain 1990s, the third female Russian cosmonaut was in training. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Like a White Russian drinking tea in Paris, marooned in the twentieth century, I wander back, try to regain those distant pathways; I become too maudlin, lose myself. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z It turned out those cells weren’t from Russian cancer patients at all. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He locks the flat door, and then hears a different story: about German planes destroyed by the Russians, sunken transport ships, and soldiers killed or captured. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z What if the house was nested with Germans or Russians? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Spassky’s defense of his title became, symbolically, a defense of the Soviet Union, and the Russian’s millstone was a heavy weight to bear. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Everyone knew that its ports had been served up to the Russians at Yalta; also that the Russians, retreating, had surrendered their guns, not to Nationalist troops, but to Communist. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He has been told that he was named after a famous Russian author, born in a previous century. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “This place was hit by Russian artillery when the war started,” he says, “but they’re as good as new now. Many of the Polish police live here.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Marina was ten in 1922 when the last armed clashes of the Russian Civil War took place. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z |
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