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Examples
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Moscovites were so terrified of the KGB secret police, they avoided uttering its dreaded name, referring to it instead by the name of a nearby toy store, "Detsky Mir."
Eric Margolis: Thank You, Mikhail Gorbachev, For Not Starting WWIII Eric Margolis 2011
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Face time is still best for urgent and complex situations, when it's crucial that both you and your doctor fully understand each other, say the authors of the JAMA editorial, Leora Horowitz, M.D. and Allan Detsky, M.D. And texting may not be a great idea for information you want to keep private.
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"It is inevitable that communication patterns among clinicians will begin to shift," wrote Horowitz and Detsky.
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Henry liked to ride around its polished wooden parquet floor in a red Russian plastic tractor I had bought in Detsky Mir, the biggest toy shop in Moscow.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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Henry liked to ride around its polished wooden parquet floor in a red Russian plastic tractor I had bought in Detsky Mir, the biggest toy shop in Moscow.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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During the financial crisis you inherited noncore assets ranging from children's store Detsky Mir to the Beijing Hotel in Moscow.
Q 2010
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In 1988, I was the first western journalist admitted to KGB headquarters at Moscow's Lubyanka Prison, a name so dreaded by Muscovites they called it by the name of a nearby toy store, "Detsky Mir."
Eric Margolis: Desperate Spywives Eric Margolis 2010
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In 1988, I was the first western journalist admitted to KGB headquarters at Moscow's Lubyanka Prison, a name so dreaded by Muscovites they called it by the name of a nearby toy store, "Detsky Mir."
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In 1988, I was the first western journalist admitted to KGB headquarters at Moscow's Lubyanka Prison, a name so dreaded by Muscovites they called it by the name of a nearby toy store, "Detsky Mir."
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Then he turned around, headed back to the square, looked up at the sun, and crossed New Square Street in front of the Detsky Mir children's shop.
A Fine Red Rain Kaminsky, Stuart M. 1987
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