Word: moujik
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...shine-/and t0 hdl with everything else!/That is my motto-/and the sun's!" Snatches of exuberant, pure song survive their pedestrian translation and make Mayakovsky sound like a moujik Whitman...
Summer Storm (United Artists) drives that shapely moujik, Linda Darnell, into a Russian garden house for shelter, and into the steaming presence of a dissolute Raymond Lovell...
...Vatican City the Papal newsorgan Osservatore Romano reflected the horror of His Holiness: "This ferocious Ivan sits in the Kremlin in a worker's smock and after the heads of both enemies and friends have rolled, issues appeals to war to the people, regiments the wretched moujik in the Red Army, and transforms it into a blind instrument of oppression of the liberty of nations...
...poor newspaper moujik in Chicago 15 years ago I quit one day and announced I was out to make a million. Now I've got 50 grand and I'm satisfied...
Last week his chance came. He had sold all his property and belongings. He had also sent his spouse to relatives for a vacation. Came a day when all the village was busy harvesting; Moujik Grachev felt in his trousers pocket, extracted a box of matches, toyed with it nervously, then flitted about the village setting fire to the houses. Back scampered the village population. Grachev welcomed them by firing a shotgun at them. Seventeen people dropped dead, many others groaned from their wounds, 13 of the village's 14 houses were burned to the ground. Grachev fled...