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...weather was typical Army-Navy football game weather, without snow - it was the filthiest day with the coldest and slickest mud Americans had ever seen on July 4th. But the Australians stuck it out despite the fact that many of the 6,000, who paid a total of ?500, had to stand in an icy wind. At the game's end, the Australians applauded politely...
...almanac reckoning, winter officially began in the Moscow area last week. Until mid-April the ground will now be under a blanket of snow, the earth helpfully hard. To Marshal von Bock's men winter will be grim, but not deadly. The average temperature for January, the coldest month...
...used to such a change, but their discomfort is nowhere nearly so great or so enduring as that of farmers. In wintertime dairy farmers already rise while it is dark, and under daylight saving they will have to rise and begin their work still earlier, in the coldest part of the night...
...pits and drive their cattle into the trackless swamp. By the time Charles had crossed the Dnieper, his force had begun to suffer from want of bread and fodder. The endless horizon of charred fields and burning villages strained his troops' morale. The final straw was the coldest winter in centuries-so cold that vodka froze and it was said wood would not burn in the open air. By spring, Charles's Army had dwindled from 44,000 to 20,000 men. In June it was overwhelmed by Peter's well-fed men at Poltava...
...were increasingly uncomfortable. They could no longer read the newspapers with any enjoyment for all the important political columnists were daily comparing the nomination of anyone but Willkie to the Fall of France-Ray Clapper, Mark Sullivan, Arthur Krock, Dorothy Thompson, Walter Lippmann, Westbrook Pegler, Hugh Johnson. Even the coldest, toughest of all, nail-hard Frank Kent told them flatly in his old-shrew style that, while Herbert Hoover was the best man, Wendell Willkie was the only winning candidate...