Word: 60th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans had advanced on Rostov in a narrow column, the left flank of which was insufficiently secured. Marshal Timoshenko drove down on the flank, then hit it head-on and sent it running. Before long the Russians claimed that the Germans' 14th and 16th Tank Divisions, 60th Motorized Division and two SS "Viking" Divisions had been pursued to Taganrog, 40 miles west of Rostov; that they were running for Mariupol, 65 miles farther west...
...work of years, the beautiful factories, the idea that every man might own a chessboard and have time to play-almost everything Stalinist was now broken by Hitler. This was the same Hitler who wired Stalin in 1939: "I beg you to accept my sincerest congratulations on your 60th birthday. I enclose with them my best wishes for your personal welfare as well as for a happy future for the peoples of the Soviet Union...
Along the 60th parallel, on the chilled hell's highway of the north Atlantic, the U.S. last week lost the illusion that it was not engaged in a shooting...
...Brazil's President Getulio Vargas, in whose honor 1,000 new schoolhouses were opened, his 58th. Maestro Leopold Stokowski, promising to leave Army bands for his Philadelphia orchestra "after the present national crisis is past," his 59th. Actress May Robson, a guest at a special screening of her 60th picture (Million Dollar Baby), her 76th...
Married (for 50 years). Al Shean, 72, Bowery-voiced comic favorite in the old-time vaudeville team of (Positively) Mr. Gallagher and (Absolutely) Mr. Shean, uncle of the Marx Brothers; and Mrs. Johanna Shean, 70; celebrated in Manhattan a week after Comedian Shean observed his 60th year on the stage...