Word: kola
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...believed that they were fighting against bands of German war prisoners who had rearmed themselves, and when he finally gave the order to intervene on July 6, 1918, the U.S. commitment was mainly limited to "aiding the Czechs against German and Austrian prisoners" and "guarding the military stores at Kola," a village near Murmansk. (There were no military stores at Kola.) When a battalion of U.S. doughboys slogged into combat positions in knee-deep water 100 miles from Archangel, posters provided by British General Headquarters proclaimed that their enemies were Bolsheviks-"soldiers and sailors who, in the majority of cases...
...leader of the gang, Actor Hayden gives a believable performance. As Hayden's henchmen, Jay C. Flippen, Ted DeCorsia and Joe Sawyer have the right wrong look; when the camera catches them together, the screen resembles a class photograph from San Quentin. And as the philosophic muscle merchant, Kola Kwarian throws the bull as charmingly as he throws the bulls...
Before he departed, the Emir, an astute ruler, made a wise gift to his men: ten tons of bitter, exhilarating kola nuts from the sterculiaceous African tree. Morale soared. On kola nuts and water Katsinans can tackle anything-hunger, fatigue, forced marches, or the most vicious enemy. Roaring their traditional cry of Hau!, the kola-inspired warriors swarmed down the Kaladan Valley, won their biggest victory of the Burma...
...beginning was Jo-Uk, the Great Creator, and he made the Sacred White Cow. Out of the Nile that Cow came up. The White Cow gave birth to a man child whom she called Kola; his grandson was Ukwa. Ukwa took two wives, beautiful holy maidens who rose out of the sacred river. One of Ukwa's sons, Nyakang, a Negro, went south to the swampy country of the Upper Nile; there he founded the Shilluk nation and became its first ret (ruler) and a demigod. That was about four centuries...
...shattered and depleted convey nosed into Kola Bay, down to the Tulema River, and Murmansk. Crewmen on Haskell's ship, who were lounging around the mess galley while awaiting their boat's turn to be unblessed, were suddenly shaken by a terrific explosion. Rushing on deck to man the guns against air attack, they found that the explosion, which struck about number four batchway, was not a bomb but a floating mine...