Word: wintrye
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It was wintry dark and the mud of Kalavryta's streets was frozen, when the bells tolled that morning-Dec. 13, 1943 -and the 2,400 men, women & children of Kalavryta gathered obediently at the grey stone schoolhouse. A few mothers who had left their babies sleeping at home...
The "immediate family" was summoned -that apparently included son Vasily, 32, lieutenant general of the air force, and daughter Svetlana, 30. No mention was made of Stalin's third wife, Roza, sister of his longtime comrade Lazar Kaganovich. The gasping old man never awoke to say goodbye. At 9...
Snow still lay in the Rockies, New England, and a tier of states across the northern border. But sap was rising early to branch and bud; despite flurries of wintry weather, there had already been days of sun in the coldest states, when gutters tinkled musically to streams from melting...
That wintry morning, Corpsman Irwin Rietz was on duty in his first-aid station, close to the front line. Through the crump of enemy mortars, he heard a G.I. shout, "Medic . . . medic," and raced to the shallow trench where his first combat casualty lay. The wounded man's helmet...
Pink-cheeked, beamish, the inevitable cigar in his hand and the dignity of greatness about him, Winston Churchill faced some 200 newsmen panting to know just why he had made the wintry Atlantic crossing, in such a hurry, to visit with Dwight Eisenhower.