Word: timoshenkos
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...greatest success of the week, like the greatest successes of the war, belonged to wily Marshal Semion Timoshenko. He sent his men on an oblique, ten-day, 65-mile plunge into the Donets Basin. His aim was to cut direct communications between the great center of Kharkov and the south. This he did at Lozovaya...
...controversy over Marshal Timoshenko's ancestry (TIME, Jan. 5), there is one factor deserving of attention. Timoshenko's birthplace, Stalino, was not just "a small town called Youzovka" but a very English town, the first and one of the most important English industrial centers in pre-war Ukraine. The name Youzovka is itself English-a Russian spelling of Hughes-ovka-after its founder, a Welsh ironmaster named Hughes...
...TIME, Jan. 5, reported a Welsh schoolteacher's statement that Timoshenko's father was a Welsh technician living in Russia. The claim is dubious, but Professor Frederiksen's interesting point tends to support...
...Charles Jenkins," wrote Schoolteacher John, "married a Russian girl and Timoshenko (Timothy Jenkins) is their eldest son. Timo's grandfather was the Rev. Caractacus Jenkins, a fine nonconformist preacher in both English and Welsh . . . and he was also a Welsh bard...
Several facts cast rather heavy doubt on Schoolteacher John's account. Timoshenko is a common Ukrainian name. Stalino, 61 years ago, was. a small town called Youzovka. Marshal Timoshenko, who would seem to have no reason for prevaricating, has always said that his father was a Russian peasant, Konstantin Timoshenko...