Word: oka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newly rich black-marketeers fling lavish parties in speakeasy restaurants for their geisha girls. Pomaded dandies and taxi-dancers foxtrot in crowded dance-halls to the melancholy strains of ikoku no oka, "the hills of a strange land"-a hit-parade lament about Japan's 400,000 strong P.W.s still held in Soviet Siberia...
...cheese lover can find good sharp Cheddar almost everywhere. For the more discriminating, there is the smelly but mild-tasting Oka made by Trappist monks near Montreal. Alberta offers the value-seeker a platter-filling Gold Medal Ranch steak for $1. And for those who go to Canada for unusual foods and not the scenery, a Flin Flon café can rustle up a gamy beavertail soup, and a Val d'Or café can do wonders with bear paws...
...Leningrad. Encircled and facing annihilation were German defenders of Mozhaisk, last Nazi stand within Moscow's defense area. A "surrender or die" ultimatum was tendered to them and rejected. The Russians recaptured Maloyaroslavets, where Tsar Alexander's Imperial Army almost captured Napoleon. An offensive on the Oka River cut down the crack tank Army of Colonel General Heinz Guderian, broodingly handsome pioneer of modern mechanized warfare. Russian forces cut his Panzers to shreds, took vast supplies of arms and material,-a trainload of newly arrived German tanks...
...flat, some of it gently rolling. To the northwest there are numerous swamps, now partly frozen. To the north there are great, patchy forests, which even in winter are good cover because they consist mostly of pine and spruce. All around is a net work of rivers-Volga, Moskva, Oka, Sherna, Protva, Ugra, Ruza, Yauza-which are now mostly frozen...
...Tula. The German drive was designed to circumvent, and later destroy, those two key areas of defense. One German column drove between Moscow and Kalinin. This week it reached a point 30 miles from the capital. Another column skirted Tula to the south and then swung north across the Oka River...