Word: hubs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston press is fond of carrying exclusive stories on the war situation written by famed columnists and correspondents. But what is the use of exclusive stories concerning far off developments when Hub papers seem not even able to cover their own stamping ground? Boston papers have, in their editorial pages, shown themselves jealous guardians of wartime freedom of the press. But what good is freedom of the press when the press freely abuses that freedom...
Initiative was still Russian property last week. The Russians attacked all along the line, from Kerch in Crimea to Karelia, bordering Finland. But they did not capture any of the main German strong points; they, like the Germans, were hub-caught in mud; and every single day of the week the Russian communique had the phrase "no significant change...
...reporter on the Des Moines Register Tribune last year, Grant is the author of a recent article in the Nation, in which he claimed Boston is the new hub of American fascists...
...winter still gripped the land, they were said to be sending reinforcements into Leningrad on a double-track railway over the ice of Lake Ladoga; in the far south also they were moving up reinforcements. There the land was thawing into the same awful gumbo that had sucked at hub caps back in the autumn, before the winter leave...
Partly it was rain that upset their calculations, miring them in hub-deep, sucking mud. But mostly they had failed because they were faced by the only troops in Asia who could match them in war-wrung experience. They themselves had taught these Chinese veterans how to snuggle against protecting hills, how to gauge ranges and rations, how to hold out hopelessly or attack desperately...