Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...June 6, 1944, for the young men in battle, for the patriots, the craven, the ordinary millions of Occupied Europe, for people everywhere, the military news was personal. Aloud or in their hearts, plain men were not ashamed to say with General Eisenhower in his Order of the Day to his men: "Good luck, and may the blessing of God go with...
...ground, which had dried out two months ago in the south, was now fit for large-scale operations all the way to the Baltic. In the south, Marshal Konev's armies had a fully coiled spring aimed toward the Galati gap which leads on to the Rumanian plain, to Bucharest and the oil of Ploesti...
Konev might make a strong thrust for the gap, pinning down German forces there, while the main Soviet offensive was launched in southern Poland, on the broad plain between the Carpathians and the Pripet marshes. In a pincer attack from north and south, Zhukov, enveloping Lwów, would find himself on the road to the Silesian corner of Germany proper...
...many an M.P., and of many a plain Briton, Manny Shinwell's question still rang: "What is the difference...
...speech as lofty as Churchill's was plain, Eden sought to exorcise some of the forces bedeviling Allied diplomacy. International suspicion, said he, "has unhappily always played its part in Anglo-Russian relations, and it has a habit of accumulating suspicions on their side which produce countersuspicions on ours and, before we know where we are, a mountain of suspicion is the result...