Word: skis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winter Is a Traitor. Since November and Stalingrad, the Russians had been moving forward. Winter had enlisted in the Russian services of supply, which depended, in winter, on three things-rails, wheeled vehicles, and above all, snow vehicles; snows had helped sleighs, had favored horseflesh over motors, the wooden ski over the steel halftrack. The Russians had learned how to move mechanized armies through the snow. The Russians' hope, they knew, was to keep moving and to keep the Germans off balance. This they could do-and did impressively well -until they had to pause to regroup their forces...
Doing fine in a not-so-grand Ottawa house, a handy two blocks from nursery school, was the all-girl family of Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands. Princess Beatrix, 5, Princess Irene, 3, were learning to ski. Six-week-old Princess Margriet Francisca was turning out to be a model child. "She is very healthy," said her mother. "She is well-trained and doesn't wake us during the night." Modern royalty's family album got a nicely brushed, fluffed, starched, and beribboned domestic portrait...
Take another general - Tulienev. You describe him as bemoustached, fun-loving, expert on mountain warfare and fond of skiing to the front lines. Can it be that the first two items were imagined by your editors after a look at his photograph (after all, a grinning man might be fun-loving) ? Can it also be that your editors have missed that issue of the Times which reported it's been raining in the Caucasus all through the current campaign, and that the Red troops have been slogging through the mud? Would that not make it difficult for the ski...
Harvard's skiers were no match for the tough competition at the Dartmouth Carnival ski tournament Saturday, ending seventh in a field of eight. New Hampshire's well-balanced team copped the championship, ending Dartmouth's long reign as the best in New England...
...field near Leningrad, is killed by a Nazi bullet in front of the camera. Then a plane, trailing black smoke, crashes to earth. With the terrible veracity of death the film ranges the long battlefront: a Soviet submarine sights a ship through its periscope and torpedoes her; Soviet ski troops swoop down a hill under fire and some fall. A company of guerrillas storm a village. When the battle ends, they angrily execute a captured traitor...