Word: citybound
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...commute to the dacha on weekends, carrying supplies-a situation familiar to many urban American husbands. The role of dachas in Russian life is by no means new to the Soviet era. Anton Chekhov wrote a short story about a dachny muzh who made the best of his citybound work week by taking a mistress in the summer while his wife was at the dacha...
...seeds she has planted in a small garden. But she has made a friend -a penguin named Mickey Mouse -and she is beginning to feel that "this is my world and my life . . . it is so beautiful here I can't imagine Melbourne any longer." To millions of citybound Australians, Jane has become something of a heroine, but most apparently want to share her adventures vicariously at best. So far there has been no mass exodus to lonely offshore islands-including little De Witt, which still has a population of only...
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