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Word: mikhailovna (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...crosses had no meaning. They were merely the latest fad. Fashion, Chikin, fashion-and profit. GUM Buyer Klavdia Mikhailovna picked up the trinkets for 330 each, presumably from a Czech costume-jewelry firm, which has been flooding Eastern Europe with such baubles. Klavdia put them on sale for $3.33, turning a neat 900% profit for the Socialist mother land. In the Soviet Union, where selling Bibles can lead to banishment, Klavdia was just a little too avantgarde. By week's end Chikin could report in a follow-up story that the doublecross to dialectical materialism had been avenged. Klavdia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Komosomols at the Crossroads | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

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