Word: bessarabia
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Semion Timoshenko, the peasant from Bessarabia, had seldom seen a better stand of wheat. It was high and golden, ripening in the sun, nodding with the blue cornflowers in the summer winds which swept the valley of the Don. The grain, his peasant eyes told him, was almost ready for harvest when the Germans came...
...decline of the Tribune's once-excellent foreign service may also be charged directly to the Colonel. When Tribune Correspondent Edmond Taylor (The Strategy of Terror) predicted that the Russian-German Pact would give Russia Bessarabia he got the ax thus...
...five weeks the Rumanians under General Ion Antonescu have laid siege to the Black Sea port of Odessa. Locked within the city, whose present population is 605,000, is part of bogey-mustachioed Marshal Semion Budenny's Southern Army which retreated there after being chased out of Bessarabia last month. They claim to have killed thousands of Antonescu's Rumanians. Every now & then, they say, a placard reading "Cease Fire and Take Away Your Dead" has to be hoisted...
...forts three stories deep. But as British Military Expert Strategicus wrote last week: "It is not positions which defend the troops but the troops who defend the positions." On the Ukraine front the Germans finally forced their way across the Dniester River, the boundary line until the Russians took Bessarabia in June...
Born in the village of Furmanka, Bessarabia, near Russia's Rumanian border, Marshal Timoshenko worked as a farm hand for wealthy landlords, first fought against the Germans as an Imperial draftee in 1915. He learned to operate American-made machine guns, but his Tsarist service ended when he was court-martialed and jailed for beating up an officer. Released after the Revolution, he rose to be a Red cavalry commander. Though the Marshal has recently been engaged in stamping out democratic procedures once favored by the Red Army, he got his own early promotions in the democratic manner...