Tass3
(tæs)
Also TASS.
[a. Russ., acronym f. the initial letters of Telegrafnoe agentstvo Sovetskogo Soyuza.]
The official Soviet news agency.
| 1925 Times 27 Aug. 11/7 A decree ratified by the Soviet authorities changes the name of Rosta (Russian Telegraph Agency) to Tass (Telegrafnoye Agenstvo Sovietskovo Soyuza = Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union), as from August 1 next. 1942 Nature 25 Apr. 475/1 It is announced by the Tass Agency that [etc.]. 1950 A. Huxley Themes & Variations 52 Not..that he had the faintest premonition of Harmsworth or Hearst,..of Goebbels or Tass. 1958 Spectator 27 June 824/1 The new Tass statement on the Lebanon. 1974 T. P. Whitney tr. Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago I. i. i. 9 Several days later TASS will issue an angry statement to all the papers. 1981 Guardian 27 Apr. 5/2 Tass, reporting from Warsaw, said..that ‘revisionist elements in the party’ were trying to paralyse it. |