Word: babushki
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...told, was our guide for the week - said hello and left. We never saw him again. We were escorted to a bus and headed for town. Security around the base itself seemed strangely lackadaisical - bored, sulky-looking guards who could have probably been ambushed by a couple of sprightly babushki...
...work during the Soviet period, being a stay-at-home mom is a completely new phenomenon for them. There was one group of people in Russia that obliterated my association between weakness and being a stay-at-home mom. The strongest people I met in Russia were the babushki, that is, the grandmothers. There exists a certain respect for them among my young Russian friends. For instance, I'll never forget the the time I was riding on the bus and my two friends said to me, "If any grandmothers come on the bus, get up right away and give...
...State Department counted red Russian noses in the U.S., last week reported that the Soviet embassy staff in Washington, the Soviet delegation to the United Nations, plus assorted Tass correspondents, Amtorg men, children, wives and babushki totaled 410. Total U.S. citizens-diplomats and dependents (113), correspondents (5), fur buyers (12), etc. -now in the U.S.S.R...
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