Word: semion
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...Semion Timoshenko, the peasant from Bessarabia, had seldom seen a better stand of wheat. It was high and golden, ripening in the sun, nodding with the blue cornflowers in the summer winds which swept the valley of the Don. The grain, his peasant eyes told him, was almost ready for harvest when the Germans came...
Caught between these columns were great and now partially isolated segments of Marshal Semion Timoshenko's armies. A grave effect of the German strategy was to confront Timoshenko with several simultaneous Nazi fronts, further draining his limited totals of men and weapons, giving him the difficult choice of retreat or encirclement. He chose to retreat...
...Near Kharkov, 400 miles to the north, Field Marshal Fedor von Bock's tight teams of planes, tanks, guns and men punched a dent, then tried to hack a great pocket in Marshal Semion Timoshenko's defenses. Eventually, if the Nazi plan worked, the pocket would become an ever-enlarging fissure...
...Kharkov Front, the admitted Nazi superiority was even more ominous. There the Russians had unlimited airfield space. Only the demands of other fronts and Russia's military capacity limit the forces available to Marshal Semion Timoshenko. Except at Sevastopol, which made no demands because it could not be reinforced, the other fronts were comparatively quiet...
...Russian dead, 2,000 prisoners. "Frontline corrections," the Nazi communiqués called these engagements, suggesting preparations for something bigger. The Russians, confirming action in this area but suggesting nothing, said they killed 5,730 Germans. To the south, where the Russians had failed to take Kharkov, Marshal Semion Timoshenko's forces tightened their hold on positions very near the city. But holding on was all they attempted last week. In the Baltic, at Leningrad's rear, Russian dive-bombers spotted Nazi troop convoys on the move. The Russians said that they sank nine German transports...