Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plain fact was that, as the world entered the last half of the sixth year of war, there was simply not enough food to go around. Since the U.S. is the greatest food producer in the world, the big troubles piled up in Washington. Last week the flame of conflict among three Government groups burst from the pile...
...Yanks lengthened the bridgehead to the north and seized rail yards at Königswinter, after bypassing a summit called the Drachenfels ("Dragon's Rock"), where the legendary Siegfried slew the dragon Fafnir. They were coming out of the deep-gashed hills toward the flat plain that leads straight to the Ruhr...
...hated them. I want to fight them now. I ask permission to continue in the war to the end-if God permits-with weapons in my hands, at the most dangerous and exposed position at the front that is possible, in the most humble grade, even as a plain sailor...
...uncharted area of the radio spectrum above the part now used for conventional sound and television broadcasting (upper limit: roughly 80 megacycles). Microwaves are used in radar, and most of the wartime discoveries about them are still military secrets. But radio engineers have found their potentialities dazzling. This week plain citizens were given a glimpse of what the engineers envision...
...fact was that WPB had no intention of freeing industry at one sweep from its tight web of controls. Instead the controls will be lifted a strand at a time. This decision was made when it became plain that no one man knew how many U.S. soldiers in Europe would have to be completely re-equipped before they were transferred to the war in the Pacific...