Word: kon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recruiting cry of Mme. Budenny as she dashed on a plunging charger into tiny Russian villages, fired peasant lads with her tales of battle and glory. Soon every man who possessed a horse and gun (or even a pony and pitchfork) was galloping at her heels to join Budennevskaya Kon-armia (Budenny's Horsemen). Only last year, when the Soviet Congress was discussing a project for electrification of certain provincial cities, Commander Budenny strode in and stampeded the session by shouting: "What is all this talk of 'electrification?' What we need is 'horsification!' Give me enough horses for the Army...
...beginning of the third quarter, Captain O'Hearn of the Eli yearlings caught the kickoff and by neat broken field running sifted through seven of his opponents for a gain of 80 yards and the first touchdown of the game. Later Oed of Yale and Captain Kon Smith of Princeton succeeded in getting a field goal...