Word: bugs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Konev's men captured the Luftwaffe's key base of Uman. The Germans were still digging trenches when the Russians struck, had no time to destroy immense supply dumps, fled half-clothed. This week Konev's Army was pounding on the German defense wall on the Bug...
...circus which turns into a trial, with a gibbering jury of freaks and clowns. In spite of some Freudian symbols which may make a few cinemaddicts jump, these dream sequences are not very dreamlike. But as production numbers they will make many a cinemaddict's eyes bug...
...delayed the Russian drive, but it did not necessarily imperil the Russian position. Behind the army of General Nikolai Vatutin lay a snow-swept steppe which offered the Germans no rich prize. By throwing all their waning strength into this battle the Germans betrayed their own fears-for the Bug, Bessarabia, the uneasy Balkans...
Vladimir the Great of Kiev took the lands along the Bug and the San from the Poles in 981. Boleslas the Brave, second king of Poland, stormed Kiev in 1018. These were but the first recorded instances in a long line of futile attempts to nail down a firm frontier where no natural barrier exists...
...Exit Bug. Most jockeys grow up on horseback; Ted traveled on foot until eight years ago. He was through high school-so rare an accomplishment among jockeys that pressagents call him "College-bred"-and loading trucks in a chemical plant when the boss noticed Ted's wiry, small frame, and wangled him a job as exercise boy at the Greentree Stable. Within three years he had won more than 40 races and got rid of his "bug" (the * after an apprentice jockey's name...