Word: mud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Litvinoff remembered, is Russia's most beautiful month. In the south, the cherries and peaches ripen; the rich black loam of the Ukraine bakes from mud to dust; on the Central Front, around Moscow, the spongy forest land is thick with violets and lilies-of-the-valley, and the cuckoo and nightingale sing...
This year the Russian spring is a threat, not a promise. The sun drying out the mud ever farther north unrolled a great firm highway for the Nazi war machine. Maxim Litvinoff could guess at the pattern of the Nazi drive: this time, probably, Hitler would smash south, toward the oil of the Caucasus, the Suez Canal, the Indian Ocean. At the same moment the Japanese, with perhaps 1,000,000 men in Manchukuo, their railroads fanned out to the Siberian border, might smash at Russia's Asian end. This was Russia's crucial hour...
...With Regards, the rheumatic $800 nag that won the Arkansas Derby last month; or Hollywood, a big Irish-bred colt imported by Texas Cattleman Emerson Woodward last fall and quoted at odds of 100-to-1 in the Derby winter book before he won an impressive race in the mud at Kentucky's Keeneland...
Initiative was still Russian property last week. The Russians attacked all along the line, from Kerch in Crimea to Karelia, bordering Finland. But they did not capture any of the main German strong points; they, like the Germans, were hub-caught in mud; and every single day of the week the Russian communique had the phrase "no significant change...
...Mud. In Camden, N.J., Mrs. Frances H. W. Kenworthey's car slid down a 60-foot embankment into the mud of a river. She sat there nine hours, explained to rescuers that she hadn't climbed out because she didn't want to dirty her new clothes...