Word: keep
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...swirling snowstorm enveloped the Russian Army. Tanks and lorries had to be dug out of snowdrifts. Gasoline supply trucks were stalled on the road from the north. The Russians had no shelter because the Finns had burned everything before retreating. While the 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...
...released from military service 10,000 men, who promptly "volunteered" to help the Finns. With Great Britain and Italy also unofficial allies, Finland seemed destined, like Spain, to become an international battleground. President Kyösti Kallio had his picture taken in the trenches with his Army, to keep up the good publicity...
...Majestic. For the sake of Canadian good will, Admiral Jellicoe grudgingly added the battle cruiser Princess Royal, but only he and the Canadians' commander in chief, Major General E. A. H. Anderson, knew it at the time, for this left Jellicoe with no edge in capital ships to keep guard over the German Navy...
...press was exasperated when after being allowed to watch the debarkation under oath to keep mum for 48 hours, it heard First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill broadcast, 36 hours before the press deadline: ". . . And I can also tell you that yesterday the leading division of the Canadian Army . . . disembarked safely and smoothly...
...English theatre knows which side its war bread is buttered on: the bright side. But it doesn't keep mum about the war; it kids it. It makes air-raid shelters and blackouts as good for laughs as mothers-in-law and pratt falls. In the opening number of Lights Up, a new Charles Cochran revue which has struck gold in the provinces and is soon to open in London, chorines wear brassieres resembling ration cards, and preserve their modesty by dangling gas-mask containers...