Word: soiled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Hersey, author of the best-selling "Into the Valley" and "A Bell for Adano," is newly arrived in Moscow to take up his latest assignment succeeding Dick Lauterbach, who is returning to New York after nine months in Russia. (When the Red Armies start rolling over the "holy soil" of Germany, Hersey will tell you how the Muscovites savor this well-earned vengeance...
Cocking the Pistols. The world waited, as for a long-delayed stage entrance, for the Red armies to cross the East Prussian border. The Germans defending their own soil threw into battle armored units brought from Italy and "heavy catapult appliances" (possibly rocket platforms). The iron-muscled and iron-willed young Jewish general, Ivan Chernyakhovsky, had 150,000 men-by German count-massed on the province's eastern border. After an artillery barrage of 3,000 shells in 20 minutes, Chernyakhovsky's infantry closed in along the Kaunas-Konigsberg railroad. General Georgy Zakharov's army group also...
...Land. The Border Region, a wilderness of loess cut into wild shapes by streams, broken by valleys and woodland, is generally fertile, but there is little rainfall. The Communists are slowly changing the face of this churlish land. Where the soil is cultivable, they have planted crops. Villages have plenty of pigs and chickens. Generally the inhabitants look sturdy, well-fed, well-clothed. The typical village home is an arched loess cave, whitewashed and faced with wood...
Aloof from the mud and excitement last week was the man who started it all. A wildcatter and full-fledged promoter, Ace (for Assaph) Gutowsky is a 58-year-old Russian with a Gregory Ratoff accent. On 28 previous occasions he had sunk his money and drills into the soil, found nothing...
...miles, had been overrun in six weeks. The German attempt to yield it slowly had been a colossal failure. The Nazi defense had been neither skillful nor economical: the prisoners taken by Russia could be totaled in six figures. The Russians battered on toward German soil...