Word: skis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pripet Marshes, the puncher was Russia's famed General Konstantin Rokossovsky. For weeks, he had been massing white-painted tanks, artillery, ski troops, cavalry, aircraft. Great strength, he knew, was needed, for the terrain was cruel, the roads few, the enemy defenses thick...
Football (U.S. soccer) is Russia's biggest sport. But in the winter, skiing ranks No. 1. Editorials in Izvestia and Red Star have urged everyone to learn the sport both for health and military training, and last week the 110 ski runs around Moscow were thronged. Schoolchildren take to it like U.S. moppets to baseball...
...deferred, but soldiers get 10 to 20-day passes for specific competitions. The Government is emphatically pro-sport. (The Red Army discovered that its average draftee in 1939 was an inch taller and five pounds heavier than in 1932, and attributes some of the improvement to mass sport movements.) Ski championships at Sverdlovsk this winter will stress military patrol competition. January's sports carnival for youngsters has events in shooting and grenade throwing...
...sports strike started in November 1940, when Nazis suppressed the Norwegian Sports Association with its 300,000 members, a tenth of the population. Patriots rebelled at the New Order's all-powerful little Führers in every sport and district. They substituted secret cross-country meets and ski championships...
...boycott was immediately effective. The world-famed ski meet on Holmenkollen, attracting 450 crack jumpers, was abandoned. When quislings tried to organize their own Holmenkollen meet, only 20 nonentities signed up. When a quisling was made president of the Oslo Gymnastic Society, all 7,000 members resigned. Sixty-four wrestlers signed up for matches with Denmark. Day of the elimination contests, not one appeared...