Word: veronika
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...generations large-familied Russians have repeated a proverb: V tesnote, da Ne V Obide (Crowding is no discomfort). Veronika, a Moscow glovemaker, remembered it as she got up from her narrow bed, stumbled over her sleeping daughters and lit a fire in the little iron pechka in the center of the tiny room. It was below freezing in the room, water had to be left dripping to keep the pipes from freezing and on this, the first day of 1943, Veronika Popova, Russia's Jane Smith, dressed quickly, repeating to herself a newer Russian proverb: Nichevo, Tovarish (Everything...
...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...
...Veronika banked the pechka and set to work making gloves for the Red Army. Her factory had been bombed and she worked at home. By midmorning it grew light and she blew out the lamp. It grew warmer, too, and she could no longer see her breath as she stitched quickly, trying to keep up with the new high norms. In past years there had been a New Year's fir tree and presents for the children...
Christmas,*the old Russian Christmas, was coming in a week, but there would be no celebration. It was a bleak new year that Veronika and nearly 200 million other Soviet citizens faced-cold, hunger and suffering...
Married. Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, 57, exiled former chief of the Italian Press & Propaganda Bureau, University of Chicago professor of Italian literature, author of Goliath: The March of Fascism (TIME, Sept. 27, 1937); and Elizabeth Veronika Mann, 21, youngest daughter of exiled German Author Thomas Mann; he for the second time, she for the first; in Princeton...