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Word: knowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kuznetsov shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know We're also learning how to act now in such situations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAMBOV: PERESTROIKA IN THE PROVINCES | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

Take our mandarin oranges. I once stayed in a Soviet hotel with a Japanese figure skater. He wanted to know what kind of fruit was on sale that was small, sour and green and got scooped up into bags. I told him they were mandarin oranges. "They can't be," he said. "I know what a mandarin orange is." What could I say? Maybe they get specially harvested as buds just for our people, so we'll walk around with sour faces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Let Me Tell You . . . | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

...wouldn't have received us. You only know how to swing billy clubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAMBOV: PERESTROIKA IN THE PROVINCES | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

Second Secretary Vladimir Selyugin was adamant about the environment. "You come down from Moscow to tell us we have an ecological problem," he said with emotion. "Don't you think we know this ourselves? You can go back to Moscow, but we are the ones who live here. Do you think I want my child to breathe polluted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAMBOV: PERESTROIKA IN THE PROVINCES | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

Tonight, though, it is 33-year-old Slava who is in trouble. "I have to tell you something this evening that I am not proud of," he says hesitantly. "I drank today. And my wife left me. Please don't abandon me. You know what I am going through. Forgive me for betraying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Scene: Moscow Beginners Where Slava Starts Over Again | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

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