Word: stalingraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the invaders from the west. The measure of their strength in 1944's crucial summer was that the Russians, from the first day of the new offensive, had burst shatteringly through their defenses in one of the worst defeats Germany had suffered on the eastern front since Stalingrad...
...Germans may yet issue orders to General Eduard Dietl similar to those given Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus at Stalingrad: fight to the last man; kill as many Russians as possible over as long a period as possible. Dietl may try to form a quisling government in northern Finland and start a civil war. This would tie up considerable Russian strength for some time. A Russian attack on Dietl and his force of typical occupation troops (older men and boys) may be expected as soon as an armistice with the Finns is signed. Dietl, the "Hero of Narvik...
...crowd got its biggest thrill in the early rounds when Botvinnik, playing indifferently, lost to a 20-year-old flash named David Bronstein, a Stalingrad railroad worker playing in his first national contest. But blondish, bespectacled Botvinnik was too self-assured to be ruffled. He went on to retain his title with 12½ points out of a possible...
Last year Grandfather Golovaty gave 100,000 rubles for a fighter plane, which his Saratov neighbor, Guards Major Yeremin, had flown at Stalingrad, Rostov, Taganrog, Melitopol and in the Crimea. Now, wrote the beekeeper, the plane was "quite worn down." Meanwhile, Grandfather Golovaty's bees had produced much honey, earned a good bounty, helped stock up Moscow's long-depleted food stores (see cut). They could afford to give another 100,000 rubles for a new plane. And might Grandfather Golovaty, personally, present the gift to Major Yeremin...
Those Guns. German prisoners told officers of a veteran South Carolina National Guard regiment, serving with the French, that the big guns were more terrible than the artillery they had faced at Stalingrad. Broadcasting from Italy, CBS Correspondent Eric Sevareid said...