Word: kiev
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked upon the carnage. It was an old sight. It had been thus at Stalingrad and Kursk, at Kiev and Gomel; it was the Red artillery's savage imprint...
Overnight the temperature bounced up 40°, flowers bloomed in Kiev and Moscow, everyone came down with a cold. Thaw time had come: the great Red winter campaign was near its calendar...
...Kathy, radiant in a long Alice blue gown; Clark Kerr and Alexander Korneichuk and his wife, Wanda Wasilewska, in a black silk skirt topped by a smart white lame jacket. When asked about Polish relations, Korneichuk, the new Foreign Commissar for the Ukraine, spoke charmingly about plans for rebuilding Kiev...
Pobeda II. To the south 600 mi. another Red Army was driving forward on what was once foreign soil. Its chief was moon-faced General Nikolai Vatutin, captor of Kiev, perhaps Russia's most brilliant field commander...
Stocky, witty Alexander Yevdokimovich Korneichuk, successful Ukrainian dramatist, member of the Supreme Soviet and, for the past year, a Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs under Molotov, resigned his post the day after his chief announced the new autonomy. Two days later Kiev announced appointment of a Commissar of Foreign Affairs for the Ukraine: Alexander Yevdokimovich Korneichuk, husband of Polish-born Wanda Wasilewska (the leader of the Union of Polish Patriots), firm believer in close harmony among Ukrainians, Czechs and Poles to block revival of Prussian militarism, well-trained disciple of the Molotov method...