Word: line
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Southern Front. After two weeks of holding off repeated thrusts at their Mannerheim defenses in the Karelian Isthmus, the Finns last week began to retake ground previously lost to the Russians. By week's end detailed accounts of fighting became available. Trying to flank the Mannerheim Line, the Russians organized a big attack along the west bank of Lake Laatokka, where the Taipale River flows into the lake. First they had to cross the river, and a Finnish soldier told the United Press's Webb Miller what happened to 500 Russians there...
...Russian regiments were "almost entirely destroyed." The Finnish communique added that "our troops are following the retreating enemy," and unofficial reports had it that they had chased Stalin's cannon fodder back into Russia and were striking toward the Leningrad-Murmansk railway, Russia's main supply line to its whole northern front...
...miles of the Finnish-Norwegian frontier, while all along that same line the desperate Finns were battling to delay the swift Russian advance. The Russians had cut off Finland's only outlet to the Arctic Ocean, were holding the northern end of the Arctic Highway, and were again threatening the Finnish supply lines from Sweden by a swift southward thrust on the highway...
...realistic, American enough to survive Legend No. i. Like all good legends, these were told without subtlety, subjective shadings, probings or questionings, its characters were instantly recognizable types. Scarlett's "I won't think of it now, I'll think of it tomorrow" was a catch line. Whatever it was not, Gone With the Wind was a first-rate piece of Americana, and Americans in the mass knew what they wanted before the critics had got through telling them they should not want...
...studio engineers kept talking to him over the hookup (a telephone line from Montevideo to Buenos Aires, short-wave radio to New York), just as reporters covering important stories used to file the Bible over the wire between developments to keep control of their telegraph connections. At 5:55 p.m. E.S.T., Jimmy shouted into the phone: "Hello New York! Hello New York! Gimme the air, gimme the air. She's exploding, blowing up! She's just been scuttled...