Word: hubs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down South. The Ukraine, which usually has its heaviest rains in June, this summer had unseasonable torrents in August. Mud was last week still a hindrance almost as great as the enemy. Vehicles bogged hub-deep (see cut}. Messagero's war correspondent wrote: "The soldiers say: We are caught in the chocolate." But long, mild, dry days are soon due on this front. And here the winter comes late. The Germans, apparently feeling that they had plenty of time to break through to the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea, last week went to work establishing bridge heads across...
Here comes Hub's pitch...
...patched overalls and jumper," whose "whole attitude [was] one of vague indecision and innate bewilderment." Maw "was heavy and cumbersome with un attended childbearing and her feet were flat and encased in low tennis shoes . . . with the laces carelessly flapping around her bare dirt-stained ankles. . . ." The children were Hub, Virginia ("Virginia ain't what you'd call a godly girl," said Paw), Gwendolin and Eugenia (who had "ferret-like eyes"), Harold and McKinley, Jutland, Buddy (who had a withered leg and a knack for drawing) and Reno (pro nounced Rinno). To Reno, their first born...
...They were pretty nice about it," said Hub to Maw. "First place I went to fixed us up a credit. . . . They knowed we was on the WP & A. . . . Right nice folks...
...Hub of the Communist universe, Moscow might be expected to have the highest morale. From the smaller cities there was little word, from farming villages (where anti-Stalin feeling is strongest) none. But along the Trans-Siberian Railway travelers saw much the same sights that they had seen in Moscow: swift, purposeful mobilization, ample food. They also saw an average of three trains an hour clanking westward with materials for the front...