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  • I recall Khruschev and how crazy and dangerous we all thought he was, pounding on the podium with his shoe and exclaiming, "We will bury you!"

    Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize? 2009

  • I recall Khruschev and how crazy and dangerous we all thought he was, pounding on the podium with his shoe and exclaiming, "We will bury you!"

    Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize? 2009

  • First, perhaps no one knows if Mr. Khruschev is sincere, and we shall never know unless we start a serious negotiation with him without delay.

    Philip Noel-Baker - Nobel Lecture 1959

  • Downing a few drinks, then a few more, Nixon rants bitterly about Khruschev and Kissinger, Castro and the Kennedys, revisiting his past glories and failures while attempting to rehabilitate his tainted image.

    John Farr: Remembering Robert Altman John Farr 2011

  • Mentioning Sevastopol is beside the point – Crimea was never historically part of Ukraine, and is only part of Ukraine now because Khruschev made a stupid mistake.

    Matthew Yglesias » Strategic Significance 2010

  • It seemed reasonable to Willy that kids in Hanoi would get toy AKs for Christmas or whatever communists celebrated, Khruschev's birthday.

    Babies Terence Cannon 2011

  • Writing: "Netanyahu became Obama's Khruschev by demonstrating the President's weakness over the settlements issue in the first round."

    Israel bashers, indeed Jennifer Rubin 2011

  • Downing a few drinks, then a few more, Nixon rants bitterly about Khruschev and Kissinger, Castro and the Kennedys, revisiting his past glories and failures while attempting to rehabilitate his tainted image.

    John Farr: Remembering Robert Altman John Farr 2011

  • Those smiles are just like the ones we saw from Kennedy and Khruschev in 1961.

    Arms treaty to face GOP scrutiny in Senate 2010

  • Guys like Mao, and Ho, and Che, took a completely different path, and it was guys like them that were idolized by the Third World, not Stalin, Khruschev and Brezhnev.

    Matthew Yglesias » Israel Deserves Better Defenders Than Andrew Roberts 2010

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