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Word: dnestr (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...Priests gave anti-tank prayers hoping to prevent Russian tanks from crossing the Dnestr River where the Poles blew up the bridge. But the tanks crossed despite the prayers and encircled obstacles which the priests had blessed and behind which the Poles had hidden. When the tanks approached the priests fled into the forests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Revolution Repeated | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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