Word: dnieper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...annihilating the other will lead to a compromise peace." Stalin actually began sending out peace feelers as early as October 1941, and, according to Liddell Hart, Foreign Ministers Molotov and Ribbentrop finally met secretly in 1943 to seek a settlement. But the Germans wanted a new boundary on the Dnieper River, which would have given them more than 130,000 sq. mi. of Mother Russia, while the Soviets, having withstood the Nazis' deepest penetration and inflicted some 300,000 casualties at Stalingrad, insisted on the prewar frontiers...
Oleinik noted that the Pripyat is the largest tributary of the Dnieper River, which in turn is the region's major waterway and the source of much of Kiev's drinking water...
...Polish frontier; the Americans had pushed northward to the gates of Rome; fleets of Allied bombers were steadily pulverizing all the major cities of Germany. But Hitler's battle-hardened force of 7 million men still dominated an empire extending 1,300 miles from the Atlantic to the Dnieper, and his scientists were on the verge of unsheathing their promised victory weapons, the long-range V-1 buzz bomb...
...hair peeked out from under a floppy fishing hat, and his bare feet dragged in the muddy water as he and Huck Finn floated lazily down the river on a makeshift wooden raft. Nothing could have been more American-only the river was not the Mississippi; it was the Dnieper. And the actor playing Tom Sawyer was freckle-faced Fedya Stukov, 9, from Moscow...
Govorukhin, who is known for his television productions of literary classics, discovered that the lush banks of the Dnieper were a mirror of the Mississippi valley. Casting Tom and Huck, however, took months. In the book, Tom and Huck are adolescents, but Govorukhin decided to use younger boys because, he felt, "we live in an era of age acceleration. Today's twelve-and 14-year-olds are thinking about discos and sports rather than playing pirates and Indians...