Word: man
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grounds that it would afford a handle which an opponent in war might grasp; diffident Stalin wears huge mustachios to make himself look more inscrutable. Alexander was imaginative, athletic, quick as an ocelot; Stalin is practical, ponderous, deliberate as a bear. Only similarity: Diogenes, out looking for an honest man, would not shine his lamp in either Alexander's or Stalin's visage very long...
Russia's Joseph Stalin began his invasion last fortnight with these advantages reversed. Instead of a disgruntled ruling class, he faced a nation which, almost to the man, hates the Russians as bloody oppressors.* And instead of clear weather and frozen lakes, Joe Stalin's forces found themselves fighting in a blinding blizzard, which grounded aviation, smashed tanks against half-concealed boulders and granite tank barriers, and gave to the Finns, who fight guerrilla-style in small units, with short, light machine guns and short, razor-edged knives, an almost even break. By the end of the second...
...Immediately after dark this entire area becomes a sort of No Man's Land, with patrols on both sides operating through the valleys. The Germans never fail to send patrols nightly. They operate in groups of 40, preceded by highly trained dogs which come to a silent 'point' when they scent other...
...rocket shell cast a bluish-white light on the German ridge. " 'Ah,' said the French officer, 'you see, the Boches are mad. One of their patrols did not return on schedule, so they are showing the way home. It is probably the group with the wounded man...
...sport, the tearful little sprout jumped over a broom handle, again & again until he fell exhausted. The scene shifted-years had passed. The son, arriving home drunk from a football game, forced his aging father to jump over a stick. "Have mercy on my grey hairs," begged the old man. "You didn't have any mercy on my black ones," said the boy. "Jump again." Father swooned...