Word: stenches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was the Ukraine in spring: sparkling puddles, shell craters, blistered, blackened tanks, the sullen stench of battle and unburied soldiers. Along the muddy roads, Red Army tractors tugged at stalled trucks and mired cannon. Red artillerymen whipped their foamy horses. Red cavalrymen trotted briskly through the muck, bespattering weary, sweating infantrymen on the way to another battle...
...Whereas, the stench of scalawag and carpetbagger days is too strong and fresh in our recollection to now retrace our steps in that racial direction . . . we indignantly and vehemently denounce . . . all organizations seeking . . . comingling of the (white and Negro) races upon any basis of equality as un-American . . . and solemnly pledge our lives to maintaining (white supremacy) whatever the cost. We demand that henceforth the damned agitators of the North leave the South alone...
...Strikes. Ancient Pskov, with its dilapidated, mossy-walled kremlin, was still the Red Army's prime target. This week, Red units pressed toward the city's gates. At the Pskov railroad station, charred ruins and the stench of war marked the spot where Red bombers caught dozens of Nazi trains being loaded for evacuation...
...swamps and forests hugging Staraya Russa bodies rotted and weapons turned rusty. The town itself lay crushed beneath its stench of death. Here, for two and one half years, the Germans held on: to give up this powerful "hedgehog" was to unhinge the whole northern front...
...Tent. The correspondents and Kathy saw thousands of corpses; the authorities said that Katyn Forest contained some 12,000. Then the party went into one of four large grey-green army tents, clumping the snow and muck off their boots as they entered. It was warmer inside and the stench was overpowering. Dr. Prozorovsky ripped open a corpse numbered 808, sliced chunks off the brain like cold meat, knifed through the chest and pulled out an atrophied organ. "Heart," he said, holding it out to Kathy. Then he slit a leg muscle. "Look how well preserved the meat...