Word: leningraders
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...persistent were these rumors, and so long undenied, that civilians began to discuss openly such things as: "Have you heard that things are going badly in the North? That there have been 70,000 dead and wounded-so many casualties that the wounded overflow from Leningrad to Moscow? Have you heard that the soldiers have no gloves and thin shoes-though the Government told us that we civilians must put up with our scarcity of clothes so that the defenders of revolution might lack nothing? Have you heard that the Finns have driven onto Russian soil at the very place...
...only had the Finns ended, for the time being at least, Russia's threat to cut their country in two, but small bands of them were pushing toward the Leningrad-Murminsk railway in several places, making real their own threat to cut Russia's supply lines to the north...
...cover of artillery fire the Russians attacked in waves. Six times the Finns threw them back, with losses of 3,000 in two days, according to the Finns. But the Finns themselves lost heavily, and another 100,000 of Dictator Stalin's best troops were reported astride the Leningrad-Viipuri railway, massed for a frontal attack on Viipuri. It began to look as though the Finns could not hold on much longer. But still the Finns held...
...Cambridge (Mass.) City Council and a fighting Irishman. Mr. Sullivan mortally hates & fears Communism. A year ago, in his zeal to stamp it out, he fist-brawled with Harvard undergraduates. Last week reckless Mr. Sullivan introduced, and his Council unanimously passed, a resolution directing that the words Lenin and Leningrad be expunged from every piece of printed matter in Cambridge, but failed to say what would happen if they were not. Stalin was not mentioned, nor Stalingrad, nor Communism, nor U. S. S. R. Mr. Sullivan was satisfied if he could exorcise just Lenin...
Mike Sullivan, the City Councilman who thinks of himself as a lonely knight tilting against the dragon of Communism, revealed yesterday that he knew his resolution banning the use of the words "Lenin" and Leningrad" anywhere in Cambridge was unconstitutional...