Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hardly more than a creek in summer, the Roer was now swollen by rain. The Germans increased the flood by blowing dams and opening sluice gates, until the shallow brown water in one place spread almost a mile across the plain. Lieut. General William ("Texas Bill") Simpson's Ninth Army inched painfully forward until it held a 20-mile stretch on the west bank. On his right, Courtney Hodges' First Army had to cross a smaller stream, the Inde, before it could come up to the Roer. The Germans fought like wild men for the Inde also. Driven...
...fighting last week was violent, especially in the bloody, muddy vortex of the Cologne plain. One U.S. officer called it "the hardest and most costly fighting I have ever seen, worse than anything in the last war." For security reasons the extent of U.S. casualties was veiled, but it was known that at least three divisions had been badly mauled. Correspondents in Paris reported the arrival of "heavily loaded" hospital trains...
From the bridgehead, the Third Ukrainian Army of brilliant, heavy-set Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukhin then began an offensive. Despite the constant drizzle and occasional snow, despite rivers and swamps and wide ditches, the Russians spread out on the plain like a Danube flood. Through the railroad network of southwest Hungary they swelled to within 21 miles of Lake Balaton, central Europe's largest, reached 72 miles from Austria's nearest frontier. Mud was a curse. Moscow newspapers told of one unit that wallowed through mud for days, finally reached its first highway. Men cheered when they...
That far-end clearance-once the hope of China-would be futile if Kunming fell. And in any case it was plain that China, in her darkest days ahead, would have to depend upon airborne supplies. General Wedemeyer said the air tonnage was increasing. But as the Japs advanced, it was also clear to the wearied, worried Chinese that supplies by air could not be the complete answer, that what the Allies had done thus far had not been enough...
...gazing into the last exhibit, a plain, full-length mirror: It's a good thing that woman behind me doesn't know how funny she looks...