Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians huddled around their machines, trying to keep warm in a −25° temperature, Finns swooped down from the hillsides on skis, began potting them from the woods with machine guns. It took little of this to convince the Russians that they had gone too far from base. Their trucks and tanks, which last fortnight had rolled in a steady stream southward along the Norwegian border, last week rolled less steadily northward. With the Finns harassing their flanks and rear, this retreat soon turned into a flight...