Word: cossack
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...make Richard Wagner turn in his grave. On the great stage of the roofless, littered Cologne Opera House a skinny little doughboy, shrouded in the pretentious livery of Siegfried, sang "Saint Louis Woman . . ." to a buxom, bearded, Brünnhilde. A G.I. strode past, sporting a foot-high Cossack hat of white fur. Romeo, a Matterhorn of meat and muscle, was there, and Juliet, too, her black wig on backwards. One battle-grimed dough-foot had abandoned his bazooka for a slide trombone. Seven pianos were going at once...
Zhukov's speed had never been matched by the Germans in their blitziest days. Off the roads, his route was over swamps and through forests. It was a terrain for Cossack cavalry to flush out enemy resistance left by the tanks. The Cossacks, in the style of their forebears, staged awesome attacks. One detachment caught almost an entire company of Germans, galloped among them with sabers slashing...
...Fourth Ukrainian army group fighting southward from Czechoslovakia eased the supply problem. A railroad and a road pass across the Carpathians were taken, and thus southern Poland and Hungary were linked through Transylvania. Five other Carpathian passes were also captured. Now Petrov needed only to meet roving Cossack cavalry and tanks from eastern Hungary to complete additional links...
...Guardsman, Commander John S. Young, onetime NBC commentator and later assistant naval attache at Moscow, modeled the regulation dress for officers assigned to the Soviet Union. To the Navy bridge coat has been added a collar of caracul. The headpiece, also of caracul, is patterned after the Cossack...
...last week's battle thousands of Rumanians laid down their arms. One group emerged from a forest hideout, begged Cossack cavalrymen: "Please take us prisoners!" The scornful Russians cried, "Back there! Back there!" sent them into internment without guards...