Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the growling Russian Bear...
Nickels & Peanuts. On the coast of Baranof Island, Sitka, last capital of Russian America* was bustling with the clack and crunch of a new $55.5 million pulp mill abuilding. Up to the north, Nome's Sah Yung Ah Tim Mini Chapter (Eskimo talk for "strength gone from the body") of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis was busy pressing its immunization drive, and Bush Pilot Neal Foster, 41, reported that Nome (pop. 2,000) was having a pleasant day at 45° and that "a bunch of people are getting their boats in the water here now, mostly...
...Chicago she didn't bother to enroll, and talked-mostly, it turned out, to Mike Nichols, another cellar-dwelling semi-student. The son of a Russian-Jewish doctor, Mike was born in Berlin, came to the U.S. as a refugee from the Nazis. In Manhattan Mike shunted in and out of progressive schools, worked as a shipping clerk, disk jockey, even a jingle judge. "It was easy-throw out the dirty ones, and the one that was left was the winner," remembers Mike. He took acting lessons from Broadway's Methodman Lee Strasberg, then in Chicago teamed with...
...hardy band of 82 Russian-speaking wanderers who call themselves "Old Believers," the men in flowing beards and the women in bright peasant dresses, were sailing last week on the latest leg of a religious odyssey that has taken them halfway round the world. Behind them lay 300 years of persecution, an exodus from Russia across Asia, a bitter exile in Communist China. Ahead was a free, pioneering life in the forests of Brazil...
...tiny but tough sect got its start in 1653 with a group of fundamentalists in the Russian Orthodox Church. They balked at such reforms as modernizing their ancient Slavonic liturgical books and using three fingers (signifying the Holy Trinity) when crossing themselves. Old Believers stuck by two fingers (signifying the dual nature of Christ) and other old traditions. Excommunicated, they set up their own church organization to keep track of births and deaths. They married only within their small fold, lived in isolated farm colonies where they produced their own food, clothing and shelter. Their descendants still scorn doctors...