Word: tomb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...north Rokossovsky's forces, with a thundering echo of history, pierced a memorable spot: Tannenberg. There the Russians looked upon the huge tomb of Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, There Hindenburg and Adolf Hitler's onetime mentor, Ludendorff, had cut to pieces a Russian army in one of World War I's classic victories. When the Germans struck in 1914, the Russians were at the same points they passed this week-Gumbinnen in the northeast, Tannenberg in the south. But this time there were also vast differences : 1) Ludendorff's daring now appeared to be possessed...
...half years they stayed, all but a handful of Belgrade's 12,000 Jews were killed or sent away. Cohen's name was listed among the dead or missing. But Cohen was not dead. Last week, having heard the Germans had left, Cohen came out of his tomb. He was pale, shrunken, with a big, matted beard. He told how every day the sexton had brought him food and the newspapers. One coffin, encrusted with candle drippings, had been his table, another...
...sundry. But the Prime Minister brushed aside fears for his life. Dressed in an Air Marshal's blue uniform, he rode with General Charles de Gaulle through shouting crowds, laid a wreath at the Unknown Soldier's monument, bowed in silence at Marshal Foch's tomb, made a speech (in original Churchill French) to the shouting Parisians. High point: "We have had differences in the recent troubled years, but I am sure you should all rally around him [General de Gaulle]." Long, Serious Talks. The Prime Minister and the General retired for some 'long serious talking...
...Rubble. The town was a welter of muddy rubble, pervaded by the stench of dead animals and burst sewer and gas mains. Despite all efforts of Allied airmen to spare the cathedral, one bomb had pierced the roof of the Gothic choir and smashed the empty tomb of Emperor Otto III (11th Century). The U.S. troops who fought toward the air-raid shelter had been trained in the streets of a bomb-riddled town in England...
...EVVA S. TOMB Toledo...