Word: spells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...money Carolyne will buy an electric refrigerator-if she can find one. Joe might put a small radio in the barn so that he can hear music and news programs while he milks. Eventually the Walls will buy an electric washing machine, and a tractor to spell the mules...
Friendly Winter. The German attack in June 1941 caught the Red Air Force by surprise. Appalling numbers of Red planes were destroyed on the ground. In the air, the Russians were outnumbered, outgunned and outflown. They fought on until winter brought a breathing spell. The Russians had landing gear which could be easily switched to skis, and they knew how to keep their engines and lubricants from freezing. The Germans did little about the winter except to complain. That year Rus sian winter grounded more of the Luftwaffe than Russian air action...
...Landing? A solid spell of just such anti-Nazi weather, allowing full use of Allied air power, would be the greatest boon the invasion could receive. But good weather or bad, it was clear that something had to be done, and soon. An undertaking like the invasion of France cannot stop; it must go forward, keep moving...
Often the dictator has put his adversaries in jail, but seldom for more than a month at a spell. He controls the press, but lets a muffled opposition exist...
...Politician. In Nicaraguan politics Tacho was a natural from the start. After a lean youth which included a spell of meter-reading, residence in the U.S., and marriage into Nicaragua's potent Debayle family, Tacho entered public life via civil war. In the troubles of 1926-27, notable for the intervention of U.S. Marines...