Word: yashchi
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...patient. Once during U.N.'s London meeting, Bevin and Vishinsky were discussing Greece in card-table metaphors. Said Vishinsky: "No etot tuz ne nasto yashchi." The patient interpreter's first try: "But this ace is a funny one." Vishinsky did not like it. The interpreter tried again: "This ace is not a genuine one." But Vishinsky was not satisfied until the sentence swelled to: "The ace which Mr. Bevin pulls out of the deck of cards is not an absolutely normal...
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