Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slopes of Mt. Etna and its foothills and on ridges overlooking the Plain of Catania, the Germans had every advantage. Their heavy artillery, anti-tank guns and machine guns bore downward at the British attackers. Northwestward, where the Canadians and Americans were advancing to aid the British and encompass Etna, every hill and defile could become a similar fortress when the Ger mans chose to make...
These straws were slender, inconclusive. The full effect of the tax cannot be computed for some months. But the drift is plain. The fat pocketbooks of the U.S. are as yet unaffected...
From a high hill, our shells crashed into the valley in increasing volume. In a mist of smoke and dust the tanks flitted warily. Forced to retreat out of the plain before the superior fire of the Mark-IVs, our light Honey tanks had hidden in a draw. They now poured a hail of diagonal fire at the German tanks. An artillery observer, awed by the gun-tank battle and our grandstand seat far above it, murmured: "You'll never see anything like this again in 20 years...
...radio's multitude of voices, one of considerable authority was added last week: the plain, human voice of long, lean, earnest Hanson W. Baldwin (TIME, Nov. 9), the New York Times's ace military reporter and critic. Baldwin took to the air for the Blue Network on a one-a-week sustainer (Sun., 3:15-3:30, E.W.T.). He is available to any sponsor who thinks that Baldwin is worth the Blue's asking price...
Utility Furniture cost ⅓ than comparable prewar products. Sixty coupons-the maximum-are about enough to take the emptiness out of a small, three-room apartment. All the furniture is extraordinarily plain-looking, angular, simple, functional. After six months of Utility Furniture the British thought Tennyson's greying grandson a practical and knowing fellow. Some even hoped his designs would be continued after...