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  • We are putting up a pretty good show; the Ivans are a good half a mile behind.

    Stuka Pilot Rudel, Hans-Ulrich 1973

  • The sale of a 350-acre farm on H.ghway 25 near Arbor by the Sturdivant Bank, to W.H. Campbell of Cape Girardeau, for $14,000, is approved by Judge Frank Kelly in Circuit Court; the land is known as the Ivans farm.

    seMissourian.com Headlines 2010

  • He became justifiably famous for descriptions of the "Ivans," about whom he also wrote a much-loved novel, The People Immortal, a celebration of the heroism of ordinary Red Army soldiers.

    The Real Patriotic War Applebaum, Anne 2006

  • In Ivan's War, the British historian Catherine Merridale now addresses what may be the most complicated piece of the Great Patriotic War mythology: the character of the ordinary Soviet soldiers ” the "Ivans," as the British and the Americans called them ” themselves.

    The Real Patriotic War Applebaum, Anne 2006

  • If the Fitu-Ivans became properly civilized, the trade of the traders would be gone.

    THE FEATHERS OF THE SUN 2010

  • And then the Fitu-Ivans, who had forgotten how to make tapa, would run around naked and eat one another.

    THE FEATHERS OF THE SUN 2010

  • Ieremia was lighter-skinned than the Fitu-Ivans, as was natural in a full-blooded Samoan.

    THE FEATHERS OF THE SUN 2010

  • In their own countries men were too civilized to let the traders make the immense profits that they made out of the Fitu-Ivans.

    THE FEATHERS OF THE SUN 2010

  • This seems strange, as most Swedes and all Ivans are supposed to be known as The Terrible. $1, available on iPhone

    Buy Me Some Peanuts and Baseball Apps Dennis Tang 2011

  • So. the fleet keeps doing crazy russian Ivans, hoping to catch them off guard.

    JODY DEAN DOWELL 2010

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