Word: leningrader
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...While Leningrad was bursting its chains (see col. 2), other Red Armies scored other victories...
Then all of Leningrad listened breathlessly to the music of battle. Like moles the Germans had burrowed deep into the alien earth; now thousands of tons of explosives dug them...
Victory's Pattern. The Russians struck from two points at once. One column drove south from the city. Another pushed out from the tiny beachhead at Oranienbaum, 25 miles from Leningrad. Before both columns a broom of TNT swept a clear path...
Victory's Rewards. Black columns of weary, stunned prisoners straggled into Leningrad. The passers-by laughed and shouted. For this was a great victory: an 880-day siege had been lifted, 25,000 Germans (according to Moscow) had been killed in six days, 85 huge siege guns had been captured. The Baltic Fleet was free again to sail into the Gulf of Finland. Red columns were pressing toward Estonia 56 miles away...
...Palo Alto to marry Lou Henry. They spent their honeymoon on a ship to China, en route to his new job as director of China's mines. Thereafter, for twelve years, Lou Henry Hoover made homes all over the world-Peking, Tientsin, Tokyo, Mandalay, Australia, St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), Paris, London. By the time her first son, Herbert Jr., was three years old he had been around the world three times...