Word: koenigsberg
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...drive seemed calculated to bring that front into line with the more advanced southern sector, which would then have its right flank secured for a sweep across south Poland to Germany. Last week's push might also be the start of a flank envelopment which might reach for Koenigsberg and cut off all the Nazi hordes to the north...
...upper jaw of the Soviet crunch reached far behind Minsk and cut the railroad to Vilna; the lower jaw snapped the trunk line to Warsaw near Baranowicze. Minsk fell, trapping an estimated 150,000 more Germans. Swarms of Red bombers blasted the roads to Vilna and Koenigsberg, to Bialystok and Brest-Litovsk...
...slowness of mechanics at Tempelhof Airdrome enraged him. "Damn it, I want to push on," he fumed, and paced the field impatiently for two hours while mechanics turned the cranks of slow fuel-pumps. Off again, Winnie Mae got to the Russian border, was driven by thunderstorms back to Koenigsberg, East Prussia, where Pilot Post grudgingly took five hours sleep, vowing not to shut his eyes again until reaching Alaska. Winnie Mae thundered out of Moscow a half-day ahead of schedule. But an oil leak was causing the robot to misbehave and Pilot Post had practically all the burden...
Acidic Girls, Bicarbonate Boys. Through Dr. Sanders (see above) Dr. F. Unterberger of Koenigsberg sent word that if women drink great quantities of bicarbonate of soda, they will bear only sons. A lactic acid diet produces only girls. Dr. Unterberger verified his theory with 78 daughter-surfeited German women. All but one bore sons. The exception had broken her alkaline régime. Six cows fed lactic acid each produced a female calf...
...swung round and made for the spot under full steam, swinging out lifeboats as she went. When they reached the spot every man but the cook and the captain went over the side to help in the rescue. Wireless messages sent speedboats from Kiel and the cruisers Koeln and Koenigsberg. There was little they could do. Only 40 men of the Niobe's crew of over 100 were rescued, some of whom swam about the sea for hours. Six cadets managed to fight their way clear of the swamped classroom. The rest were carried down with the ship...