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...Kherson, 640 miles to the south, the Germans withdrew from their bridgehead on the south bank of the frozen Dnieper...
...Thomas Edison demonstrated his talking machine to Peter Cooper, and the boys copied that too. They used their telephone diaphragm and the cook's rolling pin, which they stole while she was in the laundry. They got the machine to say "Hello," were irritated when P. T. Barnum withdrew his offer to pay $10,000 for a machine that would really talk...
...proved his theories, and the Pacific war brought the first sweet taste of public recognition. During the Burma campaign and after he withdrew to China and the long blockade, his pilots and his tactics wrote a never-to-be-forgotten record across the skies of Asia. Every agency of the U.S. Government had fought his efforts to organize the American Volunteer Group; its achievements - and his - are now a part of American glory...
Tank spearheads drove through the city, and continued in pursuit. Behind them came the bulk of Vatutin's army, estimated at 300,000. German garrisons of some 150,000 men withdrew before the trap was sprung. In Moscow, the Red Army's newspaper Red Star said proudly: "History has not known such a swift operation...
...minute, and he gathered himself together with his head in his arms and his knees drawn against his stomach. . . . They tore his shirt from him and his trousers and beat him until the breath sagged in his chest and his head lolled helplessly in the dust. Then they withdrew a little and provided themselves with stones...