Word: nichevo
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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Moscow was gay and confident. Twice within the week gun salvos announced new successes. The Dnieper had been crossed. Kiev's recapture was near. The winter's chill breath was already upon the city, but nichevo-no matter. Victory was in the air and it smelled good after two cruel and distressing years...
...TIME no thought whatever for the future culture of the U.S.? In the issue of Jan. 11, in the article on Russia, you translate the word Nichevo as meaning "Everything is fine...
...Nichevo is a bland answer to anything. How are you getting along? O.K. (Nichevo). What's cooking? Nothing. (Nichevo}. It can also mean "Every thing's fine," and "What does it matter?" It is not a definite negative or a definite affirmative...
Veronika lit her improvised lamp-a cup of kerosene with a twisted thread for a wick-and made breakfast: water-thin gruel, black bread and brick tea brewed on the pechka. When it was ready she woke 16-year-old Grusha, fed her and, with an endearing Nichevo, sent her off to work in a war plant. Eight-year-old Fanya tied her ragged valenkis on her feet and went off to school. "Nichevo, Mama, I am not very hungry," she said...
There was no letter from her husband, but Nichevo, he had everything he needed at the front...