Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...action began along a 156-mile front -the mouth of a funnel narrowing into the Galati Gap, where 45 miles of Danubian plain, marsh and delta separate the mountains from the sea. On the Gap's farther side stretch the fat grain fields of Rumania, the high roads to Ploesti's oil, and the strategic plains of Hungary...
...capital. Late in the afternoon the clouds blew away and the sun shone through a pale blue sky. The tall lovely bending trees that lined the roads and fields stood dark against the sunset. Then the sun went down and a quarter moon hung low above the plain...
...Brazilians the meaning was plain. Agitation was growing for a national election. Brazil has not had one for ten years. Last winter Vargas promised an election when the war was over. Last April he promised it again. Now the war seemed drawing to its end. President Vargas wanted to be sure that, on election day, everything would be under control...
Like many a plain front-line G.I., General McNair was hit by a wild salvo dropped in the heavy air preparations for the Normandy breakthrough (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS...
Lord Beaverbrook, Britain's dynamic, impish 65-year-old Lord Privy Seal, visited his old Canadian boyhood haunts in the Newcastle district of New Brunswick. Remembered by old neighbors in Newcastle as plain Mr. Aitken, he thanked his good friend, William Corbett, a grocery clerk, for sending to London his favorite recipe for buckwheat flapjacks, called on an aged recluse who writes him a weekly Newcastle newsletter, went salmon fishing...