Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days grew longer and the last snows melted in the scrubby birch forests south of Leningrad, millions of men and women on both sides of the front prepared to die in Hitler's third bid for victory in the east. All along the 1,500-mile front, artillery unlimbered. Moscow claimed 1,894 German planes destroyed in four weeks of intensive air battles. Each night some 200 Russian heavy bombers plastered Nazi communication centers. Counterattacking Germans in the Kuban were beaten back in fierce but local encounters. The Luftwaffe raided Kursk, lost 65 planes. Russia's Black...
...Where will she fight?" they asked. But in the neighboring capitals of Peru and Chile there was a certain uneasiness. Peruvian imperialists and rightist Chileans sensed in General Peñaranda's Washington visit a bid for a Bolivian port on the Pacific (Arica on Chile's northern boundary). They recalled the poetic prayer addressed to Vice President Wallace during his recent visit by the La Paz daily Ultima Hora: "Oh, Henry Wallace, Prophet and Redeemer, Philosopher and friend of man . . . the oldest country of the South now hears the voice of Hirakocha, the God of the Andes...
...only two sets and attested to the effectiveness of the Crimson doubles combinations. The Harvard netters added the Red and Grey to their collection of scalps which includes the University of Maine, Andover, Exeter, and Tufts. Members of the squad will travel to New Jersey in June in a bid for individual honors in the Intercollegiate Tennis Tournaments...
...Stilwell and Major General Claire L. Chennault. Straightway, the shrewdest Flying Tiger of them all got the General William L. Mitchell Air Trophy to show to his wife and eight kids (one serving on land, two at sea, three in the air). To "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell came a bid from his Peking-born daughter, Alison, 22, to her New York show of ink paintings in the Chinese style...
...second half was a different story when the Crimson attackers were hand-cuffed by a tricky Blue defense. Attackmen Stricher and Starhenski led Yale in their bid for three last half scores. Dave Thompson, Jim Conway, and Bud Lane played their best game this year in the midfield, although Captain Tom Bridge, George Angle, and Ed Barber started in the midfield...