Word: babushkaed
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...Babushka, We Go! Next morning, the story was on Manhattan front pages. (Not the tabloids, of course: there was no sex angle.) Waves of friends and reporters eddied through the Rodzinskis' Park Avenue apartment. They found the household as gaily confused as a Polish wedding party: the telephone and doorbell jingled merrily, Artur poured wine, vivacious Halina sliced Polish pastries...
...trekked back to what was left of their homes and fields in the recaptured regions east of Rzhev. On their backs they carried children too weak to walk or hold up their heads. A soldier, giving bread to a weeping, toothless, grey-haired woman, asked: "What's wrong, Babushka [Grandmother]?" The fields were tangled with tall, unmown yellow grass; meadows were snarled with burdock and thistle. The few remaining houses were stripped of logs and furniture. German soldiers had taken the wheels off baby buggies and used the prams for easy chairs; they had put their own pictures...