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Veronika lit her improvised lamp-a cup of kerosene with a twisted thread for a wick-and made breakfast: water-thin gruel, black bread and brick tea brewed on the pechka. When it was ready she woke 16-year-old Grusha, fed her and, with an endearing Nichevo, sent her off to work in a war plant. Eight-year-old Fanya tied her ragged valenkis on her feet and went off to school. "Nichevo, Mama, I am not very hungry," she said...
...Axis had two other pressure weapons. One was economic strangulation. Switzerland's main economic life line, through the Mediterranean and north Italy, had become a very thin thread susceptible to being pinched off at half a dozen points. Her secondary life line, overland from Lisbon through France, could be cut at any moment. Finally, with troops on every frontier, the Germans had the weapon of military invasion...
...past military age, then he hasn't a clear concept of what the War means to America's universities. And if he thinks that undergraduates are as uninterested in their country's struggle as his article indicates, then his faith in our future is based on a pretty slim thread...
...join the Army as soon as his new show opens on Broadway. He might as well save wear and tear on the induction center and enlist right now; his show's chances of staying in New York any longer than he will are about as slim as the thread he's based his story...
...pontoon bridge, built of rough planks supported by empty gasoline cans, gave access across the Volga. Since Sept. 18 German bombers had dropped tons of explosives attempting to smash the bridge, but had done only minor damage and that was quickly repaired. But the floating bridge was a slender thread...