Word: southwesterner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Myth. In the eyes of most Russians, Semion Budenny is something superhuman. They say that in the Revolution he and his horsemen struck like lightning, that ever since he has been a fine thunderbolt of a man. His was the revolutionary cry which swept southwestern Russia: "Proletarians, to horse!" Such speed did he command that sometimes (the legend goes) he personally fought in half a dozen sectors at once. With five men, the peasants say, he routed an army under Denikin. His praise, it is said, made men warm in winter; he could kill with no other ammunition than unprintable...
Siege of Tobruch was a month old when the Axis attackers tried again to take the place by an assault on the southwestern rim of the defense perimeter. Nazi tanks accomplished a small breakthrough. To the desert's awful heat German shock troops added that of flamethrowers, but the answering heat of British artillery exploded the flame-throwing apparatus, stopped the tanks, and squeezed the breakthrough into a small sac. The difference between the futile Italian and the furious British defense of Tobruch was not just a matter of command of the sea. The Italians used fixed artillery, which...
...June the winter wheat crops will begin moving over the Western and Southwestern roads. If the crop movement and diversion of shipping coincide, U. S. railroads will meet their first big test of ability to handle enlarged defense needs with present equipment (see p. 81). In the meantime, most of the carriers are rushing belatedly to buy more rolling stock. Since Jan. 1, Atchison has ordered 1,700 freight cars; Burlington, 2,175; Southern Pacific...
...Cripple Creek field (said to be named for a stream in which a cow once acquired a limp by getting stuck in the mud) is 36 square miles of volcanic rock on the southwestern slope of Pikes Peak. There, half-century ago, men's fortunes boiled as furiously as had the prehistoric lava which formed the plateau. A cowhand named Bob Womack, after digging so many holes that he endangered the lives of his employers' cattle, made the first strike in 1891, went on a spree, and discovered next morning that he had sold his claim...
...buckskin watch fob. His father and grandfather before him were vaqueros of the south Texas brush country; in that country Dobie was born, 52 years ago. He spent his first 15 years in a ranch boy's intimacy with cattlemen and cattle handling, went on to college (Southwestern, Columbia) and to war. He spent 1920-21 as a ranch manager, the only white man on his uncle's 200,000 acres. But his career since then has been academic: as head of the English department at Oklahoma A. & M. and, since 1925, at the University of Texas...