Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outstanding among these are the historic three who fought through Stalingrad's siege and counteroffensive-Colonel General Markian Mikhailovich Popov, Army General Nicolai Fedorovich Vatutin and Army General Konstantin Rokossovsky. They, along with Colonel General Vassily Sokolovsky and Colonel General Ivan Konev, were the men chosen to command the hydra-headed counterattack on Orel and Belgorod last month. They broke the short-lived German summer offensive of 1943 and developed the battle into a Russian onslaught...
...Platoon of Company "B" defeated the 2nd Platoon Friday in a twilight seven-inning softball game by the score of 9-5. Lt. Ivan Miller tossed for the victors and Lt. Francis T. Sharkey for the opponents. The teams were managed respectively by Lts. Warren F. Millius and Henry N. Schoenfield. Highlighting the game were the frequent altercations that developed between the umpire, Lt. Joe Redding, and Lt. Sharkey pitcher for the 2nd Platoon. Umpire players and spectators were unperturbed by the pitcher's picturesque words and actions, however, for it was common knowledge that Lt. Sharkey at one time...
...deft and dapper Ivan Mikhailovich Maisky, for eleven years Russian Ambassador in London and lately dean of the diplomatic corps at the Court of St. James's, came a puzzling promotion last week. Three weeks after a routine return to Moscow to bring his superiors up to date, it was announced that he had become a Vice Commissar of foreign affairs, would not return to London...
British recognition came to the Partisans last week. Speaking unobtrusively from Cairo, the British Government officially admitted the existence of military liaison with ragged, intense, mystery-man Tito, chief of staff for Ivan Ribar's People's Army of Liberation. British liaison with General Draja Mihailovich's Chetniks, standing enemies of the Partisans, has long been known. The Partisans charge that Mihailovich finagles with the Axis (TIME...
...more than a year the ragged army of Dr. Ivan Ribar's Partisan Veche (Council) has done all the effective fighting against the Axis in Yugoslavia. General Draja Mihailovich, famed Chetnik leader, and the exiled government of adolescent King Peter in London have held that their forces should be saved for the moment of Allied invasion. The Partisans often accused Mihailovich of collaborating with the Axis. Last week it became known that the British, who have been trying to coordinate Yugoslav resistance since last autumn, were making another attempt to persuade Mihailovich to get down to the business...