Word: birching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the multicolored spruce and birch forests the fight went on. Soon winter would freeze the hundreds of lakes and rivers, blanket the forests with snow. In the north the Russians landed six miles from Petsamo, at the northern terminus of the Arctic highway, marched in to capture the port three days later. When the Russians neutralized Kirkenes and the Finns reached Rovaniemi, organized German resistance could no longer continue. Then Finland would have peace...
King of Swing Goodman is giving his annual free concert at Chicago's Dearborn Settlement House. An excited urchin snatches Goodman's clarinet, is chased to a tenement home where his factory-worker brother, Johnny Birch (James Cardwell), is improvising on the trombone. Overheard by Goodman, Birch is hired for the band, goes on tour, gets vamped first by the band's singer, Pat Sterling (Lynn Bari), later, by Trudy Wilson (Linda Darnell), a luscious New York socialite. Birch tries to start his own band, fails miserably, goes back to a factory job. But Goodman and Trudy...
Pete Harwood, New England A.A.U. pole-vault title holder, entered the V-12 and Eliot House from Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire. His father, a 1920 Harvard man and U.S. Olympic pole-vaulter, started Pete vaulting with an old birch pole in the fifth grade at Concord, Mass. By the time Harwood had reached the eighth grade, he was clearing 8 ft., 6 in., although at the time his real ambition was baseball. It wasn't until his junior year at Exeter that Harwood discarded everything else and concentrated on the pole-vault, finishing the season with a jump...
Badger's Paws. Göring was simple and unaffected when he welcomed Welles to his garish home, Karinhall, in the flat North German birch and pine woods. But the U.S. diplomat could not keep his eyes off the tubby Nazi's hands, which were "shaped like the digging paws of a badger." On his right hand Göring wore an enormous ring set with six huge diamonds; on his left he wore an emerald at least an inch square. Göring's hands were presumably more eloquent of German intentions than anything Welles heard...
Against the Bulge. The Red High Command struck on a 150-mile front in White Russia, against the Wehrmacht's easternmost bulge. Crisscrossed by swift rivers, small lakes, marshes and dense birch and pine woods, these lush plains accounted for most of the Russian soil still held by the invader. There last week the blue dusk of early northern summer lasted all night...