Word: dnieper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia (see col. 3). They witnessed a terror in France (see p. 24). They got a new campaign in Iran (see below). As had been the case at every period of imminence, misleading rumors lit up the hot countries, like sheet lightning which has no real bolt: Was the Dnieper Dam blown up? Were the Germans making armored sleighs for winter warfare in Russia? Or was the report merely a trick to lull the London-Washington Axis? Did the Americans intend to concentrate bombers against Japan at Vladivostok? Leaders spoke: Franklin Roosevelt talked a good...
...Germans said they were mopping up the Ukraine last week. But one thing all the mops in the world could not dry up was the Dnieper River...
Line or No Line? Fortnight ago a Russian communique denied that a Stalin Line "ever existed, or exists." In the sense of a continuous line, like the Maginot, none existed. But in the Smolensk area, blocking the traditional military highroad to Moscow-between the Dnieper and Dvina Rivers-the Russians had translated PU-36 into concrete and steel terms...
...Battle of the Ukraine was a gigantic flanking operation with the Germans going deep into the stretch between the Bug and Dnieper Rivers, then swinging south to encircle the Russians at the Black Sea ports. Frontally the German gains eastward were out of all linear proportion to the great flanking sweeps which made the gains possible. A great break-through near Uman, 120 miles south of Kiev, paved the way for the final dash south to the Black Sea. By week's end the Germans claimed to have rolled across the Krivoi Rog iron-ore area, which had supplied...
...Germans claimed. They would have to stand and fight, or tumble, Dunkirk-wise, into the Black Sea. According to Moscow, the Germans spoke too soon. The greater part of the Red Army of the Ukraine had made an orderly retreat, were outside the sack, were crossing the Dnieper to take up new positions...