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Word: nicks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nick Drujinenko, illegitimate son of a White Russian woman and an Englishman on the International Settlement police force in Shanghai, was 19 when the Communists swept into his native city last year. Afraid to stay, he stowed away for the U.S. on the American President liner General Gordon. He was found, put ashore in San Francisco, sent back across the Pacific on a freighter bound for Tientsin. He jumped ship in Japan, was surrendered to the U.S. Army and put back on the U.S.-bound General Gordon. Last week in San Francisco immigration authorities were waiting for another ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Sorrows | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

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