Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside the Party there was a quickening. As a great wave passes beneath a ship, the news surged under Festung Europa. To millions of plain people it seemed to foreshadow an end to killing and to hunger...
...paralysis wore off, the supple, the plain and the shrewd looked to Italy for signs of their fate...
...Axis anchor of this line was on the plain of Catania, some three miles south of that stoutly defended port. There, for ten days, Germans of the agile Hermann Göring (armored) Division had held the British, waging battles which were still scantily reported in the U.S. press last week. One explanation of this temporary German success probably lay in an Allied communiqué of July 16: "The speed of the advance is very satisfactory, but transport and supporting weapons are of necessity limited during the present stages...
...like an urgent tapping at a door. "Those ain't ours," said a soldier. "Sounds like Hermans," said another voice, referring to the fast-firing guns of the Hermann Göring Division. Vaguely alarmed, we crested the slope and looked out into a narrow alley of plain, hugged by hills-high ones to the left, low gentle slopes to the right. Dead ahead another hill blocked the end of the valley...
Sweeping out of Barrafranca, thirteen Mark-IIIs and Mark-IVs had overrun our 3rd battalion, forcing it to evacuate its position in the plain. Temporarily unopposed by infantry, the tanks came on down the valley between the hills, shooting up at us as they came...