Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arrogant Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau, who captured Kiev in 1941, was not its first alien invader. For eleven centuries, men of the sword-Variags and Khazars, Tatars, Lithuanians and Poles -ravished the beautiful city. The proud conquerors became dust; Kiev, with its seven rolling hills, its glistening church domes, its banks towering above the Dnieper, survived. It sprawled on the border between the rich, black-soiled south and the forested north, and their wealth was the plasma which always revived...
...night the alert lasted only half an hour. But one heavy bomb plumbed into a crowded dance hall and milk-bar. When the dust of the blast had settled, the district all around looked to eyewitnesses "like a battlefield," recalled the horrors of the blitz and jarred Londoners out of their recent tendency to ignore air-raid alarms...
...Germans fought well. Ordered to hold the city and its suburbs at any cost, they sprinkled the fields with pillboxes, fortified every house, battled with bayonets, knives, trench shovels. A blinding dust storm raged over the city. Sweating and cursing, the men fought and died by the thousands in hand combat, in shattered buildings, in tanks and self-propelled guns set afire by "Molotov cocktails...
...mostly there was sand, and the dust of the sand, and the heat crawling night, and dirty clothes. There was a lot of artillery and a lot of digging and crawling, and a lot of training that was designed for and that they know readied them for, combat duty
...connections eases but does not end the prodigious labors of the Engineer troops who blazed the trail and the civilian contractors of the Public Roads Administration who ripped the permanent road through the North. Many a load of gravel will be dumped before the Engineers and the P.R.A. can dust their hands and call it a day. But the hard part is over...