Word: mud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shuh) had everything: a young Lord and Coldstream Guards officer, up for the House of Commons against a village cobbler's son whose father had once beaten the young Lord's father for the same seat; a Russian heckler, complete with astrakhan coat; babies to be patted, mud to be slung and dodged, an issue for the nation...
...wild storm lashed across Italy, driving before it torrents of blinding rain. Winds of gale force tore up trees, whipped dirt roads and open fields into bogs and mud-wallows. Through it all, soldiers fought, toe to toe, steel to steel...
...week's end the German attack slackened a little. Mud and weariness had taken their toll. Troops who had battered at each other almost without pause for two weeks got a breathing spell. The greatest assault yet had been beaten off. But no man in the beachhead doubted for a moment that there would be more...
...southeast, on the soggy approaches to Nikopol, five other divisions were Still desperately fighting their way down to the Black Sea. They were harried by the low-flying Stormoviks and pursued through the thick, black mud by Russian mobile columns. For many a German soldier the icy Dnieper...
Last week Joseph Stalin confirmed what Berlin had unhappily admitted two days earlier: the fall of Równe (Rovno) and Luck (Lutsk), an 85-mile thrust into old Poland. Vatutin had bypassed the German-held roads, sent his men into the hub-deep mud of swamps and forests. Outflanked, the Germans retreated...