Word: jackin
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Polish-born, handsome Jackin Saij had grown up in the southern Ukraine, had lost his first wife & children during four years in a Nazi labor camp. Before they disappeared, the children had learned to tell the Nazis lies about their father, so that Jackin got frequent floggings. When the Russians returned, Jackin became their prisoner. Last November, Jackin married a fellow prisoner, and in December the two arrived in the U.S., their belongings in a rope-tied bundle...
Familiar Words. In their garage apartment, Jackin and Prowska heard over & over again on the radio the strange name Gubichev, and the familiar words Moscow, Stalin and Russia...
Also, again & again the radio cried "spy," which, to Jackin Saij's overwrought mind, sounded like his own name, with which it roughly rhymes...
...George Larrimore, a Gushing woman who speaks Ukrainian, came often to reassure Prowska and Jackin. Still Prowska drew a slender forefinger across her throat. "Mother, brothers, sisters, father kaput," she would...
Strange Preparations. Jackin could not believe that it was not his name the radio called night after night. He was sure the Russians were coming to get him. "I have no hope left," he told Mrs. Larrimore. "I tried to keep it, but after eight years I lost it. If you can't trust your own children you can't trust strangers. My hope is gone like the cattle that go over the hill and never come back." One night last week, Bill and Ophelia Simon began to pack blankets and Thermoses for a fishing trip. Jackin...