Word: dynamo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eleven huskies in jerseys of royal blue, members of Moscow's Dynamo Club and soccer champions of All-the-Russias, filed out on the green turf of London's Stamford Bridge Stadium. Each player carried a bunch of red and white carnations, which he presented to his opposite number on Britain's Chelsea Club. The British, in turn, gave the men from Moscow cigar lighters...
Death & the Dynamo. Civil war forced her back to Athens. She continued to visit the country hospitals, driving through firing lines many times a day. Several of her companions were wounded...
Says a TIME correspondent who has seen the Dodge dynamo in action: "I saw her restore order in the midst of a hundred Greek Red Cross workers who wanted higher pay and persuade a British brigadier to put all his transport at her disposal to carry food to a village above the snow line ... all in twenty minutes...
...Home Ramsay, 61, General Eisenhower's naval commander in chief, topnotch amphibious-operations officer, who organized the evacuation from Dunkirk, planned and executed the naval phases of the Allied invasions of North Africa, Sicily, Italy and Normandy; in a plane crash near Paris. A quiet, aloof man (nicknamed "Dynamo" by admiring associates), Ramsay refused to let Churchill watch the landings in Normandy, on the grounds that he and his men would have enough to do without worrying about the Prime Minister's security...
...victory as in defeat, Russia keeps sports humming. This winter's program, the most ambitious since the war, opened New Year's Day in Moscow's huge (capacity 75,000) Dynamo Stadium. Men skaters raced for prizes offered by the newspaper Red Sport. Figure skaters gave exhibitions. But the main event was a hockey match between two of Russia's crack sport clubs, the Dynamo and Spartak Societies...