Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peril in the North. The Soviet High Command this week announced a full-scale offensive in the north, below Leningrad. Led by Marshal Semion Timoshenko, the Russians-taking full advantage of the remaining weeks of winter-were attacking the entire German 16th Army near Lake Ilmen. Moscow said that over 300 towns and settlements had been retaken, that 11,000 Germans were killed or captured. Success would mean that the Germans would be outflanked on the approaches of Leningrad. Then, especially if the Finns managed to make peace the whole Nazi position in the north would be in peril...
...when the censors would not let him reveal her real name. Because she never got hit hard enough to be sent home for repairs, she never got much publicity. But many a high-ranking Navy man was willing to concede by last week that on performance the Salt Lake City was the No. 1 U.S. cruiser...
...easy meat for grey-flanneled, hawk-eyed men from nearby Cambridge will be the 1450 women from Wellesley, returned to their studies after a ten-weeks, Fuel-saving layoff, if what Mary C. Lyons, of Lake Waban's publicity office, says is true. Gist of her lengthy (1300 word), report was that her girls had worked hard--"filled seed--packages"--in the experimental interim...
LONDON--A special Russian communique said tonight that the Red Army on the northern front had liquidated the German garrison at Demyansk, in the Lake limen area, and had freed it and 302 other localities...
...work of making munitions, erecting barricades and drilling the city's defenders never stops. The film has vivid shots of the lifeline that made Leningrad's resistance possible: the path across frozen Lake Ladoga, where railroad trains run on temporary tracks and trucks travel until late in the spring across the rotten ice. The most eloquent shots are those of the people: in Leningrad's streets death is so commonplace that no one turns to look at a small boy dragging a sled with a coffin...