Word: kiev
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poltava falls to the Red Army from Kharkov, the maiden's soldier will threat en Kiev and all the German forces in the Crimea and the Donets bend...
...connoisseurs of piano music would place Pianist Horowitz with the top-rank interpretive artists such as Artur Schnabel, Artur Rubinstein, or Walter Gieseking. But in everything involving sheer, crystalline dexterity, Vladimir Horowitz tops every one of them. Son of a Kiev electrical engineer, nephew of a Russian music critic, Vladimir Horowitz gave his first concerts during the dog days of the Russian revolution. He was sometimes paid in butter, flour and cabbages...
West of Kursk, where the snow was still deep, the Russians still pushed ahead. One column drove to within 25 miles of the Bryansk-Kiev railway, which links the German armies in the Ukraine with those on the northern front. If this drive between the fronts succeeds in cutting that line, the Russians will have made it less easy for the Germans to shift forces laterally from south to north. That would hamper the Germans in their effort to counterattack eventually in the north as they did last week in the south...
...Planning eventually to incorporate the Ukraine into the Greater Reich, the Germans fostered schools for Ukrainians, with special emphasis on technical training. Many Ukrainian teachers, unable to retreat when the Nazis came, taught in these schools. Movie theaters were open in most cities. Artists in cities like Odessa and Kiev were permitted to exhibit non-political works. Plays ridiculing the Soviet regime were occasionally produced under German auspices...
...Army nurses always carry 200 cc. (about 6½ oz.) of blood of the "universal" type in an ampule-named for its inventor, Dr. S. Seltsovsky of Kiev-provided with a sterilized rubber tube, needle and filter. Blood transfusions can thus be given to wounded soldiers even before the nurse shoulders and carries them, with their guns, off the battlefield...