Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yell and yell, and he'll tell you a tall one about a Peanut Wagon. Well, listen to him, because you'll soon find that you really are learning a lot of accounting. All you have to do is to get a Dist. in his course is use "plain common sense." Then there will be Mr. Bliss and his slide ruling partners, McNeil and Bingham. Statistics will amaze you. It amazed us. Just remember to question the standard and talk about Miss Filipetti's habits, and class work will be a cinch. If you are bent on attaining the first...
...Plain Beyond. When Caen is passed, the Allies will have driven out of the broken, hilly, difficult Norman country and into open, fairly level ground. The next arena of battle might well be the Plain of Caen, an area about ten miles wide and extending some 21 miles south to Falaise and southeast to St. Pierre-sur-Dives...
This country is almost ideal for tank warfare. On that plain, a battle of armor may be shaping up on a scale great enough to determine the course of the war in the west; perhaps it will be the El Alamein of western Europe...
Road to Paris. Beyond the Plain of Caen, the road leads straight to Paris, 120 miles east. That fabulous prize was more than the hub of the whole intricate French rail network; it was the symbol of German victory and of French defeat. The Nazis would defend Paris as fiercely as Berlin. To halt an Allied drive on Paris they would throw in their entire strategic reserve-if they were sure that was where Monty was headed...
...General. These were contingencies for the Germans to worry about. They did not concern General Montgomery, who knew where the blow would fall, and when, and why. Meanwhile, he concerned himself with the fighting just ahead, when his troops break out onto the French plain and take up what an Allied headquarters spokesman called "Monty's kind of a war." By now, that "Monty kind of a war" distresses the Germans as much as it delights the British. It means the kind of war he fought on the open desert of North Africa: careful, precise preparation, control...