Word: bugs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marshal Ivan Konev's army fought its way across the Bug, raced over 60 muddy miles in two days, crossed the Dniester with scarcely a change in pace. Said a British newsman in Moscow of ex-Lumberjack Konev: "He has done the unexpected, the unbelievable, the impossible...
...were signs of demoralization among the retreat-adept Germans. North of Nikolayev, the Sixth German Army was ringed and destroyed. South of Vinnitsa three encircled German divisions were being whittled down. Thousands of dejected prisoners wearily marched to Russia's rear. The fortified German line on the Russian Bug (which empties into the Black Sea)* was pierced in two days, the Dniester line in a night...
...south, another powerful force captured the key rail center of Zhmerinka, fought its way into the famed hedgehog of Vinnitsa. By forced day-&-night marches, Zhukov's mobile units caught up with the fleeing Germans, crossed the upper Bug over bridges the Germans had had no time to blow...
Reverberations. When the Reds crossed the Bug, they entered Rumania's military sphere (on the left bank the signposts were German, on the right Rumanian). The rumble of the crossing Russian tanks echoed to Rumania's darkest corner...
...first some Atlanta bookstores refused to stock the book. Strange Fruit, they charged, was "dirty," its picture of the South was dated. By last week Atlanta booksellers, bug-eyed perhaps at the 22,000-copy first printing (and advance sales of almost 20,000) of Lillian Smith's first novel, had changed their minds, ordered heavily...