I had one Poli-Sci prof (he was a guy who looked a bit like Vince Lombardi - although he was from North Carolina ... he used to always say:
"It's like they say in Russia.... tough shisky". It could be anything - or about anything, include the topic of the day.
I had another prof - a Ukrainian guy - he used to use the term 'za boom booms' all of the time - and it was almost always talking about the topic ... he was a bit insane; I think he was in the war (WWII)- not sure which side he was on - but I suspect that it was not the Soviet side. He was one of those guys that wanted you to write a 15 page paper weekly (back in the days when all you had to write with was an electric typewriter and a whole lot of correction tape.). I was lucky enough to have a correction cassette for the type writer that I had -that liquid stuff was the worst
