Word: riga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...highly literate, vigorous peasant people, used to fighting for the reluctant fruit of their poor land. They have a stolid dignity, yet are cheerfully devoted to simple, inexpensive pleasures. In the summer they used to go swimming along the endless, pine-studded beaches of the Gulf of Riga, often in the nude (the early part of the morning was reserved for men, the latter part for women, and police saw to it that none of the early bathers overstayed their allotted time). During Midsummer Night, they would swarm through their vast woods by the thousands, singing wild songs that echoed...
...Riga timber merchant, Berlin emigrated to Britain as a young man and spent most of his adult life in or near Oxford. He speaks English, German, Russian, French, is an authority on Karl Marx, Greek philosophy, Russian literature and music, the U.S. Congress and politics. He was one of few men at the Embassy who foresaw Britain's Labor victory...
...Navy!" Despite all this, the world-according-to-Forester would be different today if Hornblower had not suddenly debarked at the port of Riga and, waving his zoo-guinea gold-hilted sword, led a "flank attack [that] thwarted Bonaparte's schemes to conquer the world." "To Commodore Sir Horatio Hornblower and the British Navy!" cried the Tsar, raising a noggin of Admiralty rum. "To the Navy," responded Hornblower, "guardian of the liberties of the world...
...Italy, in Normandy, in southern France, on the east bank of the Rhine. This time the Germans felt the false hopes of abortive offensives, Atlantic Walls and secret weapons-and still hollower feelings after the fall of Tunis, Sicily, Naples, Rome; Kharkov, Kiev, Odessa, Bucharest; Paris, Marseilles, Antwerp; Riga, Sofia, Warsaw, Budapest; Aachen and Cracow; Frankfurt and Danzig; Essen and Vienna; Magdeburg and Nürenberg; Bremen, Milan, Munich, Berlin...
Last week neither the Russians nor the Germans said anything about some thing happening or about to happen on the Warsaw-Vistula front. The Germans alone told of something happening in the Latvian pocket above Riga. Berlin said the Red Army had "sacrificed tens of thousands of men" to gain one penetration...