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Word: breadless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indeed there were: some 320 towns in Byelorussia alone bore names like Roofless, Slobsville and Dirt; Abscess, Deviltry and Grief.* There was a place called Snout, and another called Corn-on-the-Foot. In the Pinsk district, such villages as Breadless, Emaciation, The Hungry One and The Thin One reflected dishonor on the good offices (and great girth) of the inventor of Goulash Communism himself, Nikita Khrushchev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: The Name's the Shame | 8/21/1964 | See Source »

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