Word: simeone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shells from the Finnish Fort Mantsi barred their retreat by road. And to the northeast, between the trapped divisions and their would-be rescuers, the woods were full of Finns. The relief forces, reported to be led by Russia's famed, swashbuckling Marshal Simeon Budenny, pounded the Finns' granite defense lines with artillery until the frozen earth was a morass of mud and slush, but every time they tried to break through they were caught in a murderous cross fire. As the Russian attacks grew weaker, the Finns took the offensive, capturing tanks and armored cars. Russian casualties...
...there were no opposition candidates. On ships of the Baltic Fleet, said a Moscow broadcaster, harmonicas played ceaselessly as the crews eagerly voted "for the invincible Stalinist bloc." He told how airmen fresh from bombing Finland leaped hastily from their cockpits to vote. In Moscow, said the announcer, Marshal Simeon Mikhailovich Budenny was elected delegate "several times over." Joseph Stalin's district was 100% for him. Concluded the announcer: "In the northernmost electoral unit of the Soviet Union, aboard the icebreaker Sedov -adrift for two years in Arctic ice-the hardy crew could not sleep owing to their impatience...
...Some famed scholars: Timesman Simeon Strunsky, New York City School Superintendent William E. Grady, former U. S. Attorney George Z. Medalie, the late Yale Professor Edward Sapir, the late New York City Civil Service Reformer Felix Fuld, the late Realtor Fred F. French...