Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sacrifice helped prevent the German from shattering Russia's Murmansk supply route and enabled Russia to keep Kronstadt, its last base in the Baltic. From Kronstadt Russian submarines and other survivors of the Red Fleet last week were still harassing Axis ships in the Gulf of Finland. On the Karelian Isthmus Russian soldiers were still holding off Finnish assaults. Leeb's armies, which once had plunged 125 miles east, now had been pushed back 100 miles and were holding a corridor only eight miles wide stretching north to Lake Ladoga (see map). Against both sides of the corridor...
...Some of them wear wrong clothes: forbidden peekaboo sweaters (bare at the waist) or transparent blouses. Many of them won't wear safe work suits, designed to prevent accidents. Most of them now wear slacks, but rebel at keeping their hair covered. Occasionally one gets scalped...
...certain. But when it did come, three centuries of frustration, dreams, mysticism, misery, disease, corruption, and heat-rotten inefficiency would spew forth. Neither the sanctimonious belief of the Raj in its own exalted trusteeship, nor Gandhi's equally sanctimonious conviction of his own purity was powerful enough to prevent it. The immediate danger was that the internal explosion would coincide with the advance of Japanese armies at the northeastern frontier and sea raids across the Bay of Bengal...
Last week in Donald Nelson's office, the 140 publishers who heard Henry Doorly describe his drive were warned by the steel industry's Salvage Committee that "only a miracle" can prevent the curtailment of steel production within several months for lack of scrap. Bluff Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, chief of the Services of Supply, said: "You are not going to get scrap by one blast in your papers. You will have to keep after it day & night, for unless everybody puts everything he has into this war, we are not going...
...Paris, Barbara found Georges. Georges, a fascinating footpad, was so closely watched by the police that when he became Barbara's nursemaid she was "the best-guarded child in Paris." Away from Barbara, Georges made his living peddling heroin, stealing old masters, putting cotton in public telephones to prevent coins from being returned. Disguised as a Hindu, Georges once robbed a Swiss bank and a French newspaper, ran the story as reported by its "special envoy" at Basle...