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  • proper noun Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union

Etymologies

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Transliteration of Russian Telegrafnoye agentstvo Sovetskovo Soyuza

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Examples

  • In England, early contacts were made with sympathetic national trade unions like DATA (Draughtsmen and Technical Association), later to be known as TASS

    15 INTERNATIONAL LINKS ARE FORGED 1980

  • His later work was to denounce the apparatus used by the Soviet Union to "perfectionize the people"--organizations such as TASS and the KGB.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • His later work was to denounce the apparatus used by the Soviet Union to "perfectionize the people"--organizations such as TASS and the KGB.

    News at Eleven: What made him [Nazim Hikmet] such a threat? Rus Bowden 2009

  • ITAR-TASS/Maxim Shemetov Newlyweds now stop at Luzhkov bridge for kisses and pictures.

    The Luzhkov Thaw Gregory L. White 2010

  • Russian relations occurred during Thursday's White House press briefing, when ITAR-TASS correspondent Andrei Sitov questioned Robert Gibbs about whether the shootings in Tucson.

    White House Press Briefing: Now With 50 Percent More Cold War Tensions! Jason Linkins 2011

  • To feed his family, he penned Vatican political documents and reports, which he began selling to such news outlets as the New York Times, Agence France-Presse and TASS, the Russian press service.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • Russian relations occurred during Thursday s White House press briefing, when ITAR-TASS correspondent Andrei Sitov questioned Robert Gibbs about whether the shootings in Tucson.

    White House Press Briefing: Now With 50 Percent More Cold War Tensions! Jason Linkins 2011

  • Eighty of the museum's 157 TASS posters, together with 75 from other collections and supporting exhibits, offer a look at a nearly unknown chapter of design history.

    The Artists Who Made a Poster a Day: Uncovering a Trove of Soviet Art 2011

  • Russian relations occurred during Thursday's White House press briefing, when ITAR-TASS correspondent Andrei Sitov questioned Robert Gibbs about whether the shootings in Tucson, Ariz. were the "reverse side of freedom," and whether the "freedom of a deranged mind to react in a violent way" was quintessentially American.

    White House Press Briefing: Now With 50 Percent More Cold War Tensions! Jason Linkins 2011

  • Russian relations occurred during Thursday's White House press briefing, when ITAR-TASS correspondent Andrei Sitov questioned Robert Gibbs about whether the shootings in Tucson, Ariz. were the "reverse side of freedom," and whether the "freedom of a deranged mind to react in a violent way" was quintessentially American.

    White House Press Briefing: Now With 50 Percent More Cold War Tensions! Jason Linkins 2011

  • The train ambles over the Steel Bridge and through the Central Eastside Industrial District, passing a mural of Gargamel and Papa Smurf I haven’t seen on car trips, as well as the tiny homes of Clinton Triangle, one of the city’s new TASS locations (temporary alternative shelter sites).

    A Day Trip from Portland to Oregon City on Amtrak 2024

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