Word: basins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...encirclement (see map). Even more dangerous to Russian hopes was his capture of Kremenchug, 160 miles to Kiev's southeast. From there he could launch a north eastward drive on 150-mile-distant Kharkov, the Ukraine's big railroad junction and industrial center, threaten the Donets coal basin. Unconfirmed were reports that the Germans had also reached Perekop at the top of the Crimean Peninsula...
Chen's wife next day went to see her husband. She knew that he could not rest quietly in the good earth without his head. Tucking a wash basin and a bottle of alcohol under her arm, she trudged off to Japanese headquarters at Taichow. From a Japanese officer she demanded the head of her husband. The officer refused...
Then Chen's wife put down the wash basin. She pulled a dagger from the sleeve of her cotton gown and spoke quietly. She said that if she were not given her husband's head she would add to his corpse two dead bodies, hers and the officer's. The Japanese officer took the head from a basket and gave...
Birth of the Blues (Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street; Victor). An album of W. C. Handy tunes as played by the popular radio act, sung by Lena Home...
...residents of the Paris basin an official manifesto was issued, threatening death for sheltering R.A.F. flyers, two crews of whom mysteriously vanished last week when shot down on the city's outskirts...