Word: bikovo
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When he was 14, Maurice Hindus left the little Russian village of Bolshoye Bikovo to make his fortune in the U. S. As it turned out, he made his fortune by periodic returns to his Russian village. In the years after the War, when most U. S. foreign correspondents were sitting in the lobby of the Hotel Metropole in Moscow wishing they were in Vienna, Maurice Hindus went once a year to see how his old friends Boris the Cattle, Trofim the Hawk, Blind Sergey, their sons and their daughters were making out under Bolshevism. What...
...couple of rooms on the lower East Side of Manhattan. Maurice did not like the smells of the city. At his first chance, he took a job as farmhand in the upstate town of "Mount Brookville." There, on page 120, Green Worlds properly starts. To Maurice, fresh from Bolshoye Bikovo, where the streets were a quagmire most of the time, where the peasants killed their colts every spring and lived in one-room huts with pigs, chickens and vast swarms of flies, where no one had ever heard of such products of civilization as underwear, toothbrushes or toilets, "Mount Brookville...
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