Word: leonide
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They are average men, with some women, their ages varying from 16 years to 55 and even 60. . . . Leonid Baidek . . . is a thin, seemingly nervous type of fellow, but a man who knows the countryside. . . . His wife and his wife's sister were killed by the Germans because they found out that he was a partisan. . . . There were 33 men in Baidek's detachment, ununiformed, heavily armed and determined, roaming over the entire region between Bryansk, Orel and Tula, blowing up bridges, hunting down small groups of Germans, smashing trucks and ambushing artillery. . . . In one operation they freed...
...news spread through the city. Mozhaisk had been recaptured. The last German stronghold near the capital was again in Russian hands. Smoking Russian cold and smoking Russian artillery (under heavy-jawed Major General Leonid Alek-sandrovich Govorov, hero of World War I and the Finnish War) had at last shattered the carefully prepared German positions in the city...
...Goldovsky, who came to the United States in 1930, was born in Moscow, Russia. Most of his musical training was received in Europe, where he studied piano under Leonid Kreutzer, Arthur Schnabel, and Ernest Dohnanyi. He graduated from the Liszt Academy of Music, in Budapest, where he studied composition with Leo Weiner...
Nazi Abetz, whose wife is a Frenchwoman, ignored conservatives of the Laval-Pétain type, concentrated on such totalitarian-minded Leftists as Gaston Bergery, who launched the phrase "200 families." whose wife is a daughter of Bolshevik Leonid Krassin. Last week Abetz was rumored in Vichy to be the coming strong man of France. That Adolf Hitler would not mind seeing the Pétain Government overthrown was evident when the Berlin radio in a series of broadcasts characterized the men of Vichy as "hyenas tearing at the carcass of dead France," as "buzzards who eat one of their...