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Word: saij (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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Oilman Bill Simon and his wife Ophelia were delighted. Like a few other families in Gushing, Okla. (pop. 8,000), they had paid the passage of a D.P. couple, and taken them into their home to work. The Simons' couple, Jackin and Prowska Saij, worked hard as gardener & cook, and they never had to be told a second time how to use the automatic household gadgets. They knew only a few words of English, but the Simons had given the couple a radio to help them learn the language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Rhymes with Spy | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

Polish-born, handsome Jackin Saij had grown up in the southern Ukraine, had lost his first wife & children during four years in a Nazi labor camp. Before they disappeared, the children had learned to tell the Nazis lies about their father, so that Jackin got frequent floggings. When the Russians returned, Jackin became their prisoner. Last November, Jackin married a fellow prisoner, and in December the two arrived in the U.S., their belongings in a rope-tied bundle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Rhymes with Spy | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

Also, again & again the radio cried "spy," which, to Jackin Saij's overwrought mind, sounded like his own name, with which it roughly rhymes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Rhymes with Spy | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

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